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Study of Birds
Draughtsman: Barlow, Francis
History note: Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Lord of Fairhaven
From the Fairhaven Fund.
Height: 139 mm
Width: 200 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: Bought (1976) by Executors of Henry Rogers Broughton
Production date: AD 1683
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen and brown ink with grey wash on paper
Accession number: PD.7-1976
Primary reference Number: 8617
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) "Study of Birds" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/8617 Accessed: 2023-02-05 08:50:10
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/8617
|title=Study of Birds
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-05 08:50:10|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: 4169
Accession Number: P.332-1941
Accession Number: 305
Accession Number: 361
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