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Mandarin boat
Height: 250 mm
Width: 337 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Unknown
Watercolour
Bodycolour
White highlights
Ink
Support composed of pith paper
Drawing : Watercolour, bodycolour and ink with heightening in white on pith paper
Accession number: 4173(1)
Primary reference Number: 185651
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Mandarin boat"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185651 Accessed: 2022-05-26 19:16:57
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Accession Number: 4170(12)
Accession Number: OC.93-1946
Accession Number: T.71-1977
Accession Number: T.103-1977
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