Capriccio - A house in the country
Draughtsman: Clérisseau, Charles Louis
Height: 420 mm
Width: 497 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
Watercolour : Gouache, on paper, with black wash border
Accession number: 3654
Primary reference Number: 6217
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Capriccio - A house in the country" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/6217 Accessed: 2023-05-28 20:56:18
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Accession Number: C.1569-1928
Accession Number: C.1491-1928
Accession Number: M.10-2006
Accession Number: PD.148-1948
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