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A Fish
Production: Unknown
Ridge tile in the form of a fish
Given by Claude Dickason Rotch
Height: 31.7 cm
Length: 29.2 cm
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 (1942-09-30) by Rotch, Claude Dickason
Accession number: OC.8-1942
Primary reference Number: 77842
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "A Fish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77842 Accessed: 2023-01-31 12:33:12
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77842
|title=A Fish
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-31 12:33:12|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-77842
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<div class="text-center"> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_8_1942_281_29.jpg" alt="A Fish" class="img-fluid" /> <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">A Fish</figcaption> </figure> </div>
Accession Number: O.297-2008
Accession Number: PD.16-1997
Accession Number: MAR.C.135 & A-1912
Accession Number: OC.166-1946
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