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Portrait of a young man
Draughtsman: Unknown
History note: A.A. VanSittart (Lugt 2479-ter)
Height: 292 mm
Width: 203 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
Yellow chalk
Black ink
Brown chalk
Black chalk
Red chalk
Support composed of paper ( laid down on paper)
Drawing (image-making) : Black, red and brown chalks with yellow highlights, with traces of a border in black ink, on paper, laid down on paper
Accession number: 2983
Primary reference Number: 6038
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 (2022) "Portrait of a young man" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/6038 Accessed: 2022-12-01 22:58:07
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-12-01 22:58:07|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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