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Edmund Pitts Esq.
Printmaker:
Blake, William
Draughtsman:
Earl, James
(After)
Allocated by H.M. Treasury through the Minister of the Arts, accepted in lieu of capital taxes
Height: 222 mm
Width: 175 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 (1985-04) by Keynes, Geoffrey
Production date: circa AD 1790
Support composed of paper
Accession number: P.424-1985
Primary reference Number: 868
Essick: XXXVI 2 D
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) "Edmund Pitts Esq." Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/868 Accessed: 2023-03-30 13:38:22
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Accession Number: P.12960-R
Accession Number: CM.4.66-1922
Accession Number: C.194 & A-2016
Accession Number: CM.40-1942
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