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English shipping becalmed
Draughtsman: Velde, Willem II van de
History note: Sir Bruce Ingram (Lugt 1405a)
Height: 185 mm
Width: 284 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, Sir Bruce
Production date: circa AD 1700
Study for a painting in the Ingram Collection repeating the same composition with only slight alterations: i.e. in the fishermen drawing their nets
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen, brown ink and some graphite, on paper
Accession number: PD.819-1963
Primary reference Number: 5488
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) "English shipping becalmed" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/5488 Accessed: 2023-02-01 04:19:56
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Accession Number: PD.11-2010
Accession Number: PD.19-2005
Accession Number: 1696
Accession Number: PD.91-1963
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