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Venus dissuades Adonis from Hunting
Printmaker:
Blake, William
Painter:
Cosway, Richard
(After)
Allocated by H.M. Treasury through the Minister of the Arts, accepted in lieu of capital taxes
Height: 164 mm
Width: 218 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
1787 - 1823
First state, printed in black on a sheet trimmed, removing the imprint
Support composed of paper
Accession number: P.413-1985
Primary reference Number: 883
Essick: XXVIII F
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Venus dissuades Adonis from Hunting" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/883 Accessed: 2023-05-31 02:04:46
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Accession Number: M.127-2015
Accession Number: MAR.M.254-1912
Accession Number: 22.I.9-33
Accession Number: 2859
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