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Men building a ship Two views of a walled town, one with battlements and towers and a domed building
Draughtsman: Casembrot, Abraham
History note: Pacetti (Lugt 2057); Berlin Print Room (Lugt 1632); sold by the Berlin Museum (Lugt 2482); Ingram (Lugt 1405a)
Height: 134 mm
Width: 192 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 (1963-01) by Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir
Support composed of laid paper ( stuck down)
Drawing : Recto: graphite and brown ink on laid paper, stuck onto false margins verso: pen and brown ink and grey wash
Accession number: PD.235-1963
Primary reference Number: 4428
Lugt: 2057
Lugt: 1632
Lugt: 2482
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) "Men building a ship" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4428 Accessed: 2023-02-07 19:11:19
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Men building a ship
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University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-4428
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Accession Number: C.261-1991
Accession Number: C.2833C-1928
Accession Number: E.71e.1903
Accession Number: C.2470-1928
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