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Calligraphy
Mirak, Sayyid
(Miniaturist)
Height: 165 mm
Width: 83 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
Support composed of paper
Calligraphy : Bodycolour with pen and ink with gold on paper, laid down
Accession number: Marlay 40-pl.20
Primary reference Number: 34864
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Calligraphy"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/34864 Accessed: 2022-05-19 23:39:26
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Accession Number: Marlay 40-pl.31
Accession Number: 3452b
Accession Number: CAL 29.4-2007
Accession Number: CAL 21-2007
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