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Design for silver chatelaine
Bequeathed by Mrs Olive Ward
Height: 225 mm
Width: 145 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: Bequeathed (2016) by Ward, O. M., Mrs
20th century
Production date:
AD 1906
Drawing : Graphite and watercolour on paper
Accession number: PD.29-2016
Primary reference Number: 221637
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) "Design for silver chatelaine" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/221637 Accessed: 2023-06-01 11:14:40
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|title=Design for silver chatelaine
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-01 11:14:40|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: MAR.M.289 & A-G-1912
Accession Number: PER.M.365 & A-E-1923
Accession Number: M/P.67 & A & B-1913
Accession Number: PD.30-2016
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