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Centifolia rose with peacock butterfly
Draughtsman: Redouté, Pierre Joseph
Height: 196 mm
Width: 147 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
Support composed of vellum (skin)
Watercolour : Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum
Accession number: PD.884-1973
Primary reference Number: 24249
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) "Centifolia rose with peacock butterfly" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/24249 Accessed: 2023-05-28 14:25:47
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University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-24249
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Accession Number: PD.109-1973.60
Accession Number: PD.756-1973
Accession Number: PD.107-1973.11
Accession Number: PD.40-1975
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