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Sheet of studies of peasants
Draughtsman: Brueghel, Jan, the elder
History note: With Colnaghi's; bt. Ingram (Lugt 1405a) November 1935
Height: 170 mm
Width: 257 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
Brown ink
Grey-brown wash
Graphite
Support composed of paper ( laid down)
Drawing : Point of the brush, pen and brown ink, grey-brown wash, on paper, laid down, with a faint line of graphite bordering it
Accession number: PD.208-1963
Primary reference Number: 4377
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 (2022) "Sheet of studies of peasants" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4377 Accessed: 2022-12-02 00:59:17
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Accession Number: PD.156-1963
Accession Number: PD.121-1948
Accession Number: 3007
Accession Number: PD.1-1956
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