Skip to main content

A thatched barn: PD.128-1961

An image of Drawing
View image details Mirador icon - view image Mirador deep zoom IIIF Manifest IIIF Manifest Slow looking

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Alternative views

An image of Drawing
An image of Drawing
An image of Drawing
Current Location: In storage

Titles

A thatched barn
A sketch for a figure with right arm raised(1); unidentified subject(2)

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista

Entities

Categories

Notes

History note: Alphonse Legros; Sir E.J. Poynter; Poynter Sale, Sotheby's, 25 April 1918, lot 179b; bt. Agnew for Charles B.O. Clarke; Louis C.G. Clarke

Legal notes

Bequeathed 1960.

Measurements and weight

Height: 160 mm
Width: 257 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Note

Sketch verso in a similar posture to the Fitzwilliam drawing of the same subject (no. 2238).

School or Style

Italian

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Brown wash
Black chalk

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Recto: pen, brown ink and wash verso: sketch (1): pen and brown ink; sketch (2): black chalk and brown wash on paper

References and bibliographic entries

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.128-1961
Primary reference Number: 7931

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 11 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "A thatched barn" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/7931 Accessed: 2025-12-08 01:53:40

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/7931 |title=A thatched barn |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-08 01:53:40|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

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-7931

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp13/PD_128_1961r.jpg"
        alt="A thatched barn"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">A thatched barn</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo