drawing;
album
- Museum number
- SL,5261.36
- Description
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A Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), in an album originally containing 167 drawings of quadrupeds; in profile to left, standing on an ice floe, drawn within a painted border
Watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white (partly oxidised)
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 258 millimetres
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Width: 329 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a description of the album see Curator's Comment in SL,5261.1.
In album SL,5261.1 to 167.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred to Prints and Drawings 17 November 1886 (see note on fly-leaf). Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5261.36
