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Study of a woman's head
Draughtsman: Wit, Jacob de (Attributed to)
Height: 274 mm
Width: 224 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: Given (1862) by VanSittart, Augustus Arthur
Support composed of paper ( blue)
Drawing : Black chalk, heightened with white on blue paper
Accession number: 3179
Primary reference Number: 5651
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) "Study of a woman's head" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/5651 Accessed: 2022-11-28 15:25:31
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/5651
|title=Study of a woman's head
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-11-28 15:25:31|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-5651
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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Accession Number: 4128
Accession Number: 3058
Accession Number: PD.66-1959
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