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Distant view of a town with trees in fore-ground
Draughtsman: Bril, Paul
History note: Sir Bruce Ingram (Lugt 1405a)
Height: 191 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 (1963) by Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir
Circa 1603 - 1604
Brown ink
Brown wash
Black chalk
Bistre
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen, two shades of brown ink, bistre, over traces of black chalk, with a thin line of brown wash bordering it on all sides, on paper
Accession number: PD.198-1963
Primary reference Number: 4360
Lugt: 1405a
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) "Distant view of a town with trees in fore-ground" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4360 Accessed: 2023-06-01 10:27:11
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Accession Number: PD.469-1963
Accession Number: C.261-1991
Accession Number: 3693 f.80
Accession Number: PD.66-1963
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