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Shepherd in a snowstorm
Draughtsman: Carse, A.Duncan
Height: 425 mm
Width: 359 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 (1834) by Mesman, Daniel
Production date: AD 1805
Support composed of paper ( laid down)
Watercolour : Watercolour, heightened with white on paper, laid down
Inscription present: twice
Accession number: 3989
Primary reference Number: 9276
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) "Shepherd in a snowstorm" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/9276 Accessed: 2023-06-09 00:05:49
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/9276
|title=Shepherd in a snowstorm
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-09 00:05:49|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-9276
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Accession Number: C.1581A-1928
Accession Number: C.793-1928
Accession Number: C.729 & A-1928
Accession Number: 348
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