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Study for the head of the Virgin
Draughtsman: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Height: 174 mm
Width: 152 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
Drawing : Pen and brown ink, on paper
Accession number: 3011
Primary reference Number: 7460
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) "Study for the head of the Virgin" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/7460 Accessed: 2023-03-26 04:19:03
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/7460
|title=Study for the head of the Virgin
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-26 04:19:03|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-7460
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<div class="text-center"> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp38/3011.jpg" alt="Study for the head of the Virgin" class="img-fluid" /> <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Study for the head of the Virgin</figcaption> </figure> </div>
Accession Number: 2143
Accession Number: 1977
Accession Number: 2080
Accession Number: 1996
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