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View of a distant town on a river
Draughtsman: Klotz, Valentin
History note: Sir Bruce Ingram (Lugt 1405a)
Height: 147 mm
Width: 390 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
Also attributed to Josua de Grave [1643-1712]
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen, brown ink and grey wash, on paper
Inscription present: two lines of writing, top centre have been removed
Accession number: PD.427-1963
Primary reference Number: 4765
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) "View of a distant town on a river" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4765 Accessed: 2023-02-06 01:17:30
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-06 01:17:30|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-4765
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Accession Number: PD.469-1963
Accession Number: C.261-1991
Accession Number: 3693 f.80
Accession Number: PD.873-1963
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