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Iris Susiana
Draughtsman: Merian, Maria Sibylla
History note: A.A. VanSittart (Lugt 2479 ter)
Height: 371 mm
Width: 280 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: Given (1862) by VanSittart, Augustus Arthur
Support composed of vellum (skin)
Watercolour : Watercolour on vellum
Accession number: 3055A
Primary reference Number: 4824
Lugt: 2479
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) "Iris Susiana" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4824 Accessed: 2023-02-04 03:12:10
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Iris Susiana
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-04 03:12:10|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-4824
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Accession Number: PD.217-1994.f.8
Accession Number: PD.765-1973
Accession Number: PD.126-1973.15
Accession Number: PD.201-1973
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