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Spindletree
Schouman, Aert
(Draughtsman)
Terminal portion of branched woody stem with scarlet flowers in cymes and orate leaves.
Height: 372 mm
Width: 254 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 laid paper
Watercolour : Watercolour on laid paper
Accession number: PD.127-1973.52
Primary reference Number: 32314
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Spindletree"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/32314 Accessed: 2022-08-10 10:24:37
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