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Dianthus chinensis
Draughtsman: Ehret, Georg Dionysius
History note: Purchased by the donor from Levine and Mosley, December 1941
Height: 455 mm
Width: 322 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 (1973) by Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton
Production date: AD 1764
Support composed of vellum (skin) ( laid down)
Watercolour : Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, laid on card
Accession number: PD.432-1973
Primary reference Number: 23381
Broughton: 1557
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) "Dianthus chinensis" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/23381 Accessed: 2023-03-20 22:50:33
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Dianthus chinensis
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-20 22:50:33|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-23381
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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Accession Number: PD.101-1973.11
Accession Number: PD.126-1973.19
Accession Number: PD.126-1973.35
Accession Number: C.6-1929
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