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Head of a Young Woman
Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
(Draughtsman)
History note: Perhaps from the Dukes of Modena; William Young Ottley sale, 6 June 1814, lot 808 (?); Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); Charles Brinsley Marlay
Height: 113 mm
Width: 90 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
Pinkish-grey wash
Bodycolour
Silver points
Support: composed of prepared paper
Drawing : Silverpoint, heightened with bodycolour on a pinkish-grey prepared surface, on paper
Accession number: 3078
Primary reference Number: 7640
Lugt: 2445
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/7640 Accessed: 2021-12-03 07:40:32
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Accession Number: PD.28-1947
Accession Number: 2081
Accession Number: 1193a
Accession Number: 2567
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