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The Neapolitan Coast with Vesuvius in eruption
Dahl, Johan Christian Clausen
(Painter)
History note: J.J. Holten; Torben Frimodt; Sale Christie's, 28 November 1986, lot 17 where bought through Jack Baer
Bought from The Gow Fund, 1986
Height: 23 cm
Width: 33.5 cm
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: Bought
(1986)
by
The Gow Fund
Production date: AD/CE 1820 : Dahl was in Naples from 10 August 1820 to 3 February 1821
Support: composed of canvas ( the weave of the canvas, course and thick, showing through) paper
Painting : Oil on paper marouflé to canvas
Accession number: PD.43-1986
Primary reference Number: 3010
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: PD.11-1997
Accession Number: PD.42-2001
Accession Number: 948
Accession Number: 20
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