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Flying female figure: Diana (?)
Castello, Giovanni Battista (il Bergamasco)
(Draughtsman)
From the University Purchase Fund.
Height: 130 mm
Width: 120 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: Bought
(1895)
by
W. Farrer Sale, Cambridge
Support composed of paper ( pasted on an old piece of card)
Drawing (image-making) : Pen, and brown ink, brown wash on paper, laid down
Accession number: 2900
Primary reference Number: 7208
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Flying female figure: Diana (?)"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/7208 Accessed: 2022-05-23 13:09:19
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