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On a marble ledge, a peeled orange and a decorated brown pot containing flowers that include roses, Pelagonium, Tropical orchid, herbacious Clemetis with a Red Admiral butterfly
Draughtsman: Bauer, Franz Andreas
Bequeathed 1973.
Height: 477 mm
Width: 352 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 (1975) by Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton
Production date: AD 1792
Support composed of vellum (skin)
Drawing (image-making) : Gouache on vellum
Inscription present: in Gothic caps
Accession number: PD.58-1975
Primary reference Number: 22902
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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