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Portrait of Hector Berlioz
Draughtsman: Legros, Alphonse
History note: From the collection of Charles Julius Knowles, father of the last owner
Height: 318 mm
Width: 216 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 (1959-05) by Knowles, Guy John Fenton
Support composed of paper ( pink, prepared)
Drawing : Gold point on pink prepared paper
Accession number: PD.45-1959
Primary reference Number: 6534
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) "Portrait of Hector Berlioz" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/6534 Accessed: 2023-05-31 06:02:39
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: GR.2.1955
Accession Number: M.44
Accession Number: P.118-1949
Accession Number: CM.39-2005
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