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Surf
Painter: Steer, Philip Wilson
Height: 15.9 cm
Width: 74.0 cm
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 (1939) by Hindley Smith, Frank
? 1885 - 1886
Support composed of panel (wood)
Painting (image-making) : Oil on panel
Accession number: 2415
Primary reference Number: 3944
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) "Surf" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/3944 Accessed: 2023-06-03 16:47:05
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/3944
|title=Surf
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 16:47:05|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-3944
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp2/2415.jpg"
alt="Surf"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Surf</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
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