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Sleeping lioness
Ward, James
(Painter)
Height: 38.1 cm
Width: 59.1 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.
by
Unknown
1840 - 1850
Support composed of canvas
Painting (image-making) : Oil on canvas
Accession number: 3939
Primary reference Number: 4012
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Sleeping lioness"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4012 Accessed: 2022-05-28 15:07:13
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Accession Number: PD.81-1948
Accession Number: O.68-1991
Accession Number: M.20-1979
Accession Number: PD.27-1999
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