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A rider on a rearing horse
History note: Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2092); the Earls of Pembroke; Pembroke Sale, Sotheby's, 10 July 1917, lot 467; Henry Oppenheimer, his sale, Christie's, 10-14 July 1936, lot 106; bought by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. for Captain Norman Colville, M.C.
Acquired from the Trustees of Colonel Norman R. Colville, deceased, by Private Treaty Sale from the Gow, Cunliffe, Leverton Harris, Perrins and Reitlinger funds, with a contribution from The Art Fund, The National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and a grant from the Pilgrim Trust, with contributions from Mrs Monica Beck, David Scrase and an anonymous donor, 1999
Height: 141 mm
Width: 119 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: Bought
(1999)
by
Colville, Norman R., Colonel, the trustees of
Production date: not before AD/CE 1481
Support: composed of paper ( the sheet cut from a larger one; the upper corners cut diagonally)
Drawing : Metalpoint reinforced with pen and brown ink on a pinkish prepared paper
Accession number: PD.44-1999
Primary reference Number: 52
Lugt: 2092
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/52 Accessed: 2021-11-28 02:26:37
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Accession Number: 1079/38
Accession Number: PD.906-1963
Accession Number: C.2795B-1928
Accession Number: 1079/37
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