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A man watching a kylin being devoured by a dragon
Miniaturist: Allah, Inayat (Perhaps by)
Bequeathed by P.C. Manuk and Miss G.M. Coles in 1946 through the National Art Collections Fund.
Height: 197 mm
Width: 116 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 laid paper
Watercolour : Watercolour with pen and ink on laid paper
Accession number: PD.154-1948
Primary reference Number: 33954
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "A man watching a kylin being devoured by a dragon" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/33954 Accessed: 2023-02-09 13:46:51
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-09 13:46:51|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: OC.7-1942
Accession Number: OC.6-1942
Accession Number: C.737-1991
Accession Number: P.12064-R
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