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A pot on a ledge, containing roses, poppies, hollyhock, larkspur, marigolds, morning glory, auricula, with snails and a bird's nest containing eggs
Hendricks, Wybrand
(Draughtsman)
History note: The artist; his sale, February 1832; 2nd Lord Fairhaven
Height: 469 mm
Width: 351 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
(1973)
by
Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton
Production date: AD 1832-02 : Watermark includes a Strasburg lily, perhaps Hönig paper.
Watercolour
Graphite
Gum arabic
Support composed of laid paper
Watercolour : Graphite and watercolour with traces of gum Arabic, surrounded by brown wash borders, on laid paper
Accession number: PD.642-1973
Primary reference Number: 23543
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"A pot on a ledge, containing roses, poppies, hollyhock, larkspur, marigolds, morning glory, auricula, with snails and a bird's nest containing eggs"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/23543 Accessed: 2022-08-11 00:48:58
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