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The Tiburtine Sibyl
Draughtsman: Maccari, Leopoldo
From the University Purchase Fund.
Height: 326 mm
Width: 252 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: Bought (1875) by The Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen and black ink on lightly squared paper, made up, top left
Inscription present: with part of a scale
Accession number: 4049
Primary reference Number: 37565
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 (2023) "The Tiburtine Sibyl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/37565 Accessed: 2023-03-30 20:04:41
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-30 20:04:41|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-37565
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Accession Number: M.5.10-1920
Accession Number: 31.I.11-22
Accession Number: PD.955-1963
Accession Number: M.5.8-1920
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