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Capriccio - fragments in a landscape with two columns supporting an entablature at left Traces of leaves
Draughtsman: Clérisseau, Charles Louis
Height: 178 mm
Width: 236 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 (1821) by Whittaker, J. W.
Black wash
Watercolour
Black chalk
Ink
Gouache
Support composed of paper
Watercolour
: Recto: watercolour, gouache, pen and ink, with traces of black chalk, with black wash border
verso: pen and ink with black chalk on paper
Pen and ink
Accession number: 3637
Primary reference Number: 6200
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) "Capriccio - fragments in a landscape with two columns supporting an entablature at left" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/6200 Accessed: 2023-02-09 13:05:29
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: P.42-2005
Accession Number: 31.K.12-123
Accession Number: C.38-1933
Accession Number: C.39-1933
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