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A Dutch ship before a fresh breeze
Draughtsman: Velde, Willem II van de
History note: Worsley (1930s); Ingram (Lugt 1405a)
Height: 225 mm
Width: 288 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
Grey wash
Whitening
Black chalk
Support composed of paper ( blue-grey)
Drawing : Black chalk and grey wash, heightened with white on blue-grey paper
Accession number: PD.789-1963
Primary reference Number: 5441
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) "A Dutch ship before a fresh breeze" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/5441 Accessed: 2023-03-28 09:38:52
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-28 09:38:52|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-5441
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Accession Number: PD.29-1961
Accession Number: PD.820-1963
Accession Number: 54
Accession Number: PD.566-1963
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