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Children with flowered border: PD.249-1973

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Children with flowered border

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Chalon, Christina

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1973) by Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton

Note

Floral wreath probably painted by Noos Van Ametel (1726-1798).

School or Style

Dutch

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Bodycolour
Ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Paper Height 110 mm Width 108 mm

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Pen and ink with watercolour and bodycolour; the wreath printed in colour on paper
Pen and ink
Colour printing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Chr Chalon / F.
  • Location: Lower right
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: This little drawing is of a large border, being a flower wreath printed in colours, and carries all the characterstics of a great age, having the spirited (?) Christina Chalon last withstanding the badness and grainery of the paper, to draw the beautiful and artistic group of playing children. Ao 1774. J. van Buren
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.249-1973
Primary reference Number: 23091
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 13 December 2019 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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