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Tailpiece Little Tom the Sailor
Printmaker: Blake, William
Allocated by H.M. Treasury through the Minister of the Arts, accepted in lieu of capital taxes
Height: 116 mm
Width: 165 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 (1985-04) by Keynes, Geoffrey
Production date: AD 1800
Proof of the tailpiece for Little Tom the Sailor, by William Hayley, 1800
Support composed of paper
Relief etching
White line method
Accession number: P.471-1985
Primary reference Number: 666
Bindman: 384 b
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) "Tailpiece" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/666 Accessed: 2023-06-10 13:22:41
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-10 13:22:41|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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<div class="text-center"> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp18/P_471_1985.jpg" alt="Tailpiece" class="img-fluid" /> <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Tailpiece</figcaption> </figure> </div>
Accession Number: PD.256-1985
Accession Number: P.470-1985
Accession Number: MS 178
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