"Butter Fly's Ball"
Draughtsman: Belch, W.
Album bound in red morocco leather with gold tooling. Contains 20 gold edged leaves, and two yellow endpapers. The leaves alternate between heavy and light-weight papers, the drawings laid down upon recto of heavy-weight papers. Eight drawings pasted to leaves. See poem by William Roscoe (1753-1831), "The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast".
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1923) by Perceval, Spencer George
Production date: circa AD 1810
Support
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paper
Height 76 mm
Width 91 mm
Leaf
Height 161 mm
Width 94 mm
Cover Board
Height 166 mm
Width 103 mm
Accession number: 4027
Primary reference Number: 48591
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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