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Spring Venus and Cupid
Draughtsman: Vos, Maarten de
Height: 203 mm
Width: 269 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 (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
Light brown ink
Light-brown wash
Whitening
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen, light-brown ink, light-brown wash, heightened with white, on paper
Accession number: 3708
Primary reference Number: 5581
Old object number: 22.I.8-143
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) "Spring" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/5581 Accessed: 2023-06-10 10:06:58
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Spring
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-10 10:06:58|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-5581
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Accession Number: C.987-2016
Accession Number: C.204-1934
Accession Number: 2401
Accession Number: 899.10
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