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Mrs Arbuthnot
Miniaturist: Cosway, Richard
Bequeathed 1960.
Height: 68 mm
Width: 53 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: AD 1796
Support composed of ivory
Watercolour : Watercolour on ivory
Accession number: PD.200-1961
Primary reference Number: 17803
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) "Mrs Arbuthnot" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/17803 Accessed: 2023-06-01 12:15:11
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/17803
|title=Mrs Arbuthnot
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-01 12:15:11|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-17803
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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Accession Number: P.11891-R
Accession Number: P.159-1937
Accession Number: 1915
Accession Number: LoanMSSPB.26-2015
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