Unknown Lady
Miniaturist: Cosway, Richard (After)
Height: 74 mm
Width: 59 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 (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Support composed of ivory
Watercolour : Watercolour on ivory
Accession number: 3891
Primary reference Number: 17815
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 Lady" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/17815 Accessed: 2023-06-03 22:57:13
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 22:57:13|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: 3883
Accession Number: 3868
Accession Number: C.1016-2016
Accession Number: C.1022-2016
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