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The Death of Lucretia
Printmaker: Blake, William
Allocated by H.M. Treasury through the Minister of the Arts, accepted in lieu of capital taxes
Height: 173 mm
Width: 102 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 (1985-04) by Keynes, Geoffrey
Production date: AD 1797-12-01
Book illustration.
Support composed of paper
Accession number: P.735-1985
Primary reference Number: 31829
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) "The Death of Lucretia" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31829 Accessed: 2023-02-08 21:58:25
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-08 21:58:25|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: M.9-2006
Accession Number: EC.33-1941
Accession Number: 914
Accession Number: M.21B-1938
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