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Dancing girl with a Love philtre
Unknown
(Miniaturist)
Height: 190 mm
Width: 127 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
Persian, according to B.W. Robinson. Dr. K.N. Sita Ram (1932-04-06): 'Indian, late 19th Century'.
Bodycolour
White bodycolour
Ink
Gold
Support composed of laid paper
Watercolour : Bodycolour including white, with pen and ink and gold on laid paper
Accession number: Marlay 40-pl.33
Primary reference Number: 34948
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Dancing girl with a Love philtre"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/34948 Accessed: 2022-08-18 10:26:33
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Accession Number: PD.136-1948
Accession Number: EC.11B-1938
Accession Number: PD.32-1968
Accession Number: C.1729-1928
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