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The dead Christ
History note: Fabra, Francesco da A.Gali
History note: Succarats, Pedro
History note: Colville, Col. Norman
History note: Trustees of the N.R.Colville Trust
Bought from the Perceval Fund with contributions from the National Art Collections Fund and Mark Fisch through Cambridge in America
Height: 355 mm
Width: 274 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 (2003) by N. R. Colville Trust, trustees of the
Production date: circa AD 1432
Pen : Pen, brown ink, brown wash, red wash, lead white
Support composed of paper ( Briquet 2619-2682)
Brown ink
Brown wash
Red wash
Lead white
Accession number: PD.25-2003
Primary reference Number: 98999
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "The dead Christ" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/98999 Accessed: 2023-05-29 21:03:47
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Accession Number: 3025
Accession Number: PD.5-1957
Accession Number: PD.11-2011
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