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A bag-pipe player standing on a rock
Unknown
(Miniaturist)
Height: 178 mm
Width: 104 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
(1912)
by
Marlay, Charles Brinsley
17th Century
Production date:
AD 1624
Bodycolour
White bodycolour
Ink
Gold
Support composed of paper
Watercolour : Bodycolour, including white, pen and ink with gold on paper, laid down
Accession number: Marlay 40-pl.11
Primary reference Number: 34760
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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"A bag-pipe player standing on a rock"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/34760 Accessed: 2022-05-21 00:37:46
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Accession Number: O.2-2017
Accession Number: O.323-2008
Accession Number: O.5-1951
Accession Number: EC.2-1941
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