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Unknown Man
Miniaturist: Hilliard, Laurence
History note: J. Pierpont Morgan; his sale Christie's, 24 June 1935 (97), where bought by L.D. Cunliffe
Height: 58 mm
Width: 43 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
Production date: AD 1640
Support composed of vellum (skin) ( stuck to card)
Watercolour : Watercolour on vellum stuck to a card which has been gessoed on both sides
Accession number: 3849
Primary reference Number: 17982
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 Man" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/17982 Accessed: 2023-06-07 11:08:48
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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Accession Number: C.1040-2016
Accession Number: PD.26-1952
Accession Number: C.1034-2016
Accession Number: C.1026-2016
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