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Greenwich Hill
Draughtsman: Rowlandson, Thomas
History note: Sold Christie's, 10 April 1911, lot 9; bt. Carfax (£6.5); Ricketts and Shannon Collection
The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937
Height: 339 mm
Width: 544 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 Shannon, Charles Haslewood
Watercolour : Ink and watercolour on paper
Accession number: 2173
Primary reference Number: 19146
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) "Greenwich Hill" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/19146 Accessed: 2023-01-31 17:18:57
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-31 17:18:57|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-19146
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Accession Number: 1710
Accession Number: P.9922-R
Accession Number: P.940-R
Accession Number: PD.19-2010
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