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The Death of Absalom
Draughtsman: Maccari, Leopoldo
From the University Purchase Fund.
Height: 437 mm
Width: 393 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
Meidum
composed of
black wash
light-brown wash
Drawing : Pen and black ink, black and light brown wash on lightly squared paper
Accession number: 4070
Primary reference Number: 37620
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 Death of Absalom" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/37620 Accessed: 2023-01-26 22:38:31
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|title=The Death of Absalom
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-26 22:38:31|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: C.38-1934
Accession Number: M.21B-1938
Accession Number: M.6-1939
Accession Number: CM.100-1994
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