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Landscape with a farmhouse and shepherds herding cattle and sheep
Draughtsman: Aartman, Nicolaas
Height: 100 mm
Width: 143 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: Given (1862) by VanSittart, Augustus Arthur
Probably a design for a book illustration
Grey wash
Black wash
Graphite
Indian ink
Support composed of paper ( laid down on paper)
Drawing (image-making) : Pen and Indian ink, grey wash over graphite, with a thin line of black wash bordering it on all sides, on paper, laid down on paper
Accession number: 2857C
Primary reference Number: 4160
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) "Landscape with a farmhouse and shepherds herding cattle and sheep" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4160 Accessed: 2023-06-03 19:03:08
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|title=Landscape with a farmhouse and shepherds herding cattle and sheep
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 19:03:08|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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