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By the roadside
Draughtsman: Rowlandson, Thomas
Height: 259 mm
Width: 364 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: Given (1924-03) by Anderson, A.E.
Production date: AD 1795
Support composed of paper
Watercolour : Graphite and watercolour on paper
Accession number: 1122
Primary reference Number: 19058
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "By the roadside" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/19058 Accessed: 2023-03-20 10:25:50
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=By the roadside
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-20 10:25:50|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-19058
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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Accession Number: PD.647-1963
Accession Number: PD.318-1963
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