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Venus and Adonis
Broeck, Crispin van den
(Draughtsman)
Height: 289 mm
Width: 203 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: Transferred
(1876)
by
Cambridge University Library
Support composed of paper ( part of the leg of Adonis is corrected on a separate sheet, pasted over the original drawing)
Drawing : Red chalk, pen and ink, a line of red chalk, and line of brown wash borders it on all sides on paper
Accession number: 2859
Primary reference Number: 4362
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: M.127-2015
Accession Number: 22.I.9-33
Accession Number: P.413-1985
Accession Number: P.42-1948
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