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Head and shoulder of a baby, turned towards the right
Height: 229 mm
Width: 156 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: Given (1862) by VanSittart, Augustus Arthur
Brown wash
Whitening
Red chalk
Ink
Silverpoint
Support composed of prepared paper
Drawing : Silverpoint, brown wash, heighened with white, on paper prepared white , the frame with an arched top drawn in pen and brown ink over traces of red chalk, bordered on all sides by a line of brown ink
Accession number: 2930
Primary reference Number: 7286
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) "Head and shoulder of a baby, turned towards the right" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/7286 Accessed: 2023-05-31 06:11:57
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Accession Number: PD.103-1961
Accession Number: CM.1998-1950
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