Coast scene with fortress
Draughtsman: Clérisseau, Charles Louis
Height: 358 mm
Width: 28.6 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 (1821) by Whittaker, J. W.
Support composed of paper ( stuck on thicker paper)
Watercolour : Black chalk and watercolour on paper, stuck on thicker paper
Accession number: 3606
Primary reference Number: 6156
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Coast scene with fortress" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/6156 Accessed: 2023-03-30 13:04:16
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Accession Number: PD.864-1963
Accession Number: 501
Accession Number: 948
Accession Number: 1339*
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