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A thatched barn A sketch for a figure with right arm raised(1); unidentified subject(2)
Draughtsman: Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
History note: Alphonse Legros; Sir E.J. Poynter; Poynter Sale, Sotheby's, 25 April 1918, lot 179b; bt. Agnew for Charles B.O. Clarke; Louis C.G. Clarke
Bequeathed 1960.
Height: 160 mm
Width: 257 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 (1961) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Sketch verso in a similar posture to the Fitzwilliam drawing of the same subject (no. 2238).
Brown ink
Brown wash
Black chalk
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Recto: pen, brown ink and wash verso: sketch (1): pen and brown ink; sketch (2): black chalk and brown wash on paper
Accession number: PD.128-1961
Primary reference Number: 7931
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "A thatched barn" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/7931 Accessed: 2023-06-10 03:29:23
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Accession Number: C.962-1928
Accession Number: P.2094-R
Accession Number: PD.43-1956
Accession Number: PD.546-1963
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