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The Last Supper
Draughtsman: Master of the Fitzwilliam Deposition (Attributed to)
History note: Transferred from the Reading Room, 1979 (Marlay cuttings)
Height: 97 mm
Width: 117 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 (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Support composed of vellum (skin)
Drawing (image-making) : Gouache, point of the brush and ink with gold highlights on vellum
Accession number: 254
Primary reference Number: 6849
Wikidata: Q77464745
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) "The Last Supper" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/6849 Accessed: 2023-02-07 19:34:50
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/6849
|title=The Last Supper
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-07 19:34:50|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: Marlay cutting Z. 6c
Accession Number: PD.13-1977
Accession Number: M.52-1904
Accession Number: M.3-1954
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