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Landscape with a walled town, with a fountain beside a river
Draughtsman: Busiri, Giovanni Battista
History note: General Sir George Cockburn; Shanganagh Library; Spencer George Perceval
Height: 222 mm
Width: 166 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 (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
Busiri Vici, p. 115, pl. 157.
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen and brown ink on paper
Accession number: 3693 f.85
Primary reference Number: 9865
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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) "Landscape with a walled town, with a fountain beside a river" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/9865 Accessed: 2023-01-27 22:27:10
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Accession Number: C.248-1991
Accession Number: 263
Accession Number: PD.32-2006
Accession Number: V.1-236
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