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Chasmanthe floribunda
Draughtsman: Withoos, Pieter
Height: 307 mm
Width: 231 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.101-1973.14
Primary reference Number: 30574
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) "Chasmanthe floribunda" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/30574 Accessed: 2023-06-06 03:20:13
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-06 03:20:13|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-30574
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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Accession Number: PD.126-1973.28
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