Unknown Young Officer
Miniaturist: Cosway, Richard
Bequeathed 1960.
Height: 41 mm
Width: 31 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 (1961) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Production date: circa AD 1790
Support composed of ivory
Watercolour : Watercolour on ivory
Accession number: PD.197-1961
Primary reference Number: 17684
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) "Unknown Young Officer" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/17684 Accessed: 2023-06-01 12:24:23
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-01 12:24:23|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: PD.215-1961
Accession Number: P.26-2003
Accession Number: PD.60-1958
Accession Number: C.844-1928
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