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A view of a town above a river Study of trees and rocky landscape
Draughtsman: Bloemen, Jan Frans van (Orizonte) (Attributed to)
?View of Rome from the Aventine Hill
History note: Paul Sandby, R.A. (1725-1809) L.2112 bottom L.; Sir Bruce Ingram (not stamped) offered for sale by his executors, Sotheby's 1 December 1964, lot 71, as a View of Rome near the Tiber, withdrawn
Bequeathed 1963, received 1964
Height: 177 mm
Width: 267 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: Bequeathed (1964) by Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir
Grey wash
Brown ink
Brown wash
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Recto: pen, brown ink, grey and brown wash, with a line of grey wash bordering it on all sides verso: pen and brown ink on paper
Accession number: PD.105-1964
Primary reference Number: 4287
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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) "A view of a town above a river" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4287 Accessed: 2023-06-04 19:02:22
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Accession Number: C.261-1991
Accession Number: 2126
Accession Number: 1090.f.4
Accession Number: PD.32-2006
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