These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
On a stone ledge a terracotta vase containing Morning Glory, Tulip, Double Hyacinth, Peony, Hydrangea, Larkspur, Tuber-rose, Carnation, Love-in-the-Mist, (Nigella), Auricula and Centifolia rose
Draughtsman: Huysum, Jan van (Attributed)
History note: ?With Levine and Mosley; 2nd Lord Fairhaven
Bequeathed 1973.
Height: 721 mm
Width: 523 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
Support composed of paper
Watercolour : Black chalk and watercolour on paper, laid down on board
Inscription present: in a cartouche
Accession number: PD.79-1975
Primary reference Number: 23620
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) "On a stone ledge a terracotta vase containing Morning Glory, Tulip, Double Hyacinth, Peony, Hydrangea, Larkspur, Tuber-rose, Carnation, Love-in-the-Mist, (Nigella), Auricula and Centifolia rose" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/23620 Accessed: 2023-06-02 07:34:55
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/23620
|title=On a stone ledge a terracotta vase containing Morning Glory, Tulip, Double Hyacinth, Peony, Hydrangea, Larkspur, Tuber-rose, Carnation, Love-in-the-Mist, (Nigella), Auricula and Centifolia rose
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-02 07:34:55|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-23620
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp13/PD_79_1975.jpg"
alt="On a stone ledge a terracotta vase containing Morning Glory, Tulip, Double Hyacinth, Peony, Hydrangea, Larkspur, Tuber-rose, Carnation, Love-in-the-Mist, (Nigella), Auricula and Centifolia rose"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">On a stone ledge a terracotta vase containing Morning Glory, Tulip, Double Hyacinth, Peony, Hydrangea, Larkspur, Tuber-rose, Carnation, Love-in-the-Mist, (Nigella), Auricula and Centifolia rose</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
