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The Hours

Samuel Shelley, 1801

1.70 m

Both at true scale.

12 cm × 14 cm

Smaller than your phone. You would need 12 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 14 cm
Width: 12 cm
Medium: Ivory
Kind: Miniatures
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (140 x 109 mm)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 11 cm × 14 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 12 cm × 14 cm. Smaller than your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1801. It is in the public domain, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900.
How was it made?: Ivory.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.