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Eagle on a perch
Draughtsman: Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri
Height: 386 mm
Width: 252 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 (1968) by Adkin, M.B.C.
1912-06 - 1912-12
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen and blue-black writing ink on paper
Accession number: PD.26-1968
Primary reference Number: 6395
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) "Eagle on a perch" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/6395 Accessed: 2023-01-29 06:58:45
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-29 06:58:45|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: P.169-1949
Accession Number: E.GA.148.1947
Accession Number: M.11-1943
Accession Number: CM.3431-2003
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