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Elephant trumpeting
Miniaturist: Unknown
Bequeathed 1946, by P.C. Manuk and Miss G.M. Coles, through the National Art Collections Fund.
Height: 89 mm
Width: 81 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 (1948) by Manuk, P. C. and Coles, G. M., Miss
Support composed of paper ( laid down)
Watercolour : Bodycolour, pen and ink, graphite and some gold on paper
Accession number: PD.79-1948
Primary reference Number: 33181
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Elephant trumpeting" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/33181 Accessed: 2022-12-09 19:34:23
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