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Ladies Slipper, white
Draughtsman: Goodall, William (British)
Height: 327 mm
Width: 196 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
Copy after Curtis's 'Botanical Magazine', plate 216, Jan 1, 1793
Support composed of paper
Watercolour : Ink and watercolour on paper
Accession number: PD.125-1973.50
Primary reference Number: 32093
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) "Ladies Slipper, white" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/32093 Accessed: 2023-02-05 15:44:23
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