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Design for a reliquary
Draughtsman: Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi)
History note: The Earls of Warwick; Warwick sale, Christie's, 20/21 May 1896, part of lot 278, bought by Charles Fairfax Murray; G.T. Clough
Height: 500 mm
Width: 125 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 (1913) by Clough, G.T.
Black chalk
Brown ink
Brown wash
Support
composed of
paper
( two pieces of paper)
Sheet 2
Height 142 mm
Width 125 mm
Sheet 1
Height 358 mm
Width 125 mm
Drawing : Pen and brown ink, brown wash, lightly squared for transfer in black chalk, on paper
Accession number: 3014
Primary reference Number: 7415
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Design for a reliquary" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/7415 Accessed: 2023-03-30 20:25:52
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Accession Number: MAR.M.55 & A-1912
Accession Number: M.4-1918
Accession Number: MAR.M.58 & A-1912
Accession Number: PD.23-2016
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