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The battle near Sicily (Mount Etna in background)
Draughtsman: Backhuysen, Ludolf
History note: With Colnaghi's; bt. Ingram (Lugt 1405a), February 1937
Height: 107 mm
Width: 151 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 (1963) by Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir
Production date: AD 1676
Black ink
Brown ink
Brown wash
Support composed of paper
Drawing (image-making) : Pen, black and brown ink, brown wash reinforced with brown ink, with a line of brown wash bordering it on all sides, on paper
Inscription present: Inscription
Accession number: PD.111-1963
Primary reference Number: 4216
Lugt: 1405a
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 (2022) "The battle near Sicily (Mount Etna in background)" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/4216 Accessed: 2022-12-03 06:46:06
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Accession Number: PD.584-1963
Accession Number: 3443
Accession Number: PD.180-1991
Accession Number: M.118-1961
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