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Couple: CAL 2-2017

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Couple

Maker(s)

Calligrapher: Brown, Denis
Author: Byron, Catherine

Categories

Description

Mixed media on two whole calfskins, stitched onto museum board and mounted on oak-veneered MDF.

Incorporates verses from Catjerome Byron’s poem "Coffin, crypt, consumption"

146 x 108 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2017-04) by Byron, Catherine

Dating

Production date: AD 1996

Identification numbers

Accession number: CAL 2-2017
Primary reference Number: 222702
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 10 October 2017 Updated: Thursday 23 November 2017 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

Citation for print

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