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Rhexia Capitala
Draughtsman: Poiteau, Pierre-Antoine
Height: 435 mm
Width: 324 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
Support composed of vellum (skin)
Watercolour : Graphite and watercolour, with margins ruled in ink, on vellum, mounted between cards
Accession number: PD.96-1973.32
Primary reference Number: 30149
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) "Rhexia Capitala" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30149 Accessed: 2023-06-01 10:09:00
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: PD.96-1973.25
Accession Number: PD.96-1973.22
Accession Number: PD.96-1973.30
Accession Number: PD.96-1973.27
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