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Statue of Mercury

Michael Henry Spang, n.d.

1.70 m

Both at true scale.

6.6 cm × 12 cm

Smaller than your phone. You would need 14 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 12 cm
Width: 6.6 cm
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray and orange wash, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper
Kind: Drawing and Watercolor
Made in: Denmark
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: 12 × 6.6 cm (4 3/4 × 2 5/8 in.)
Credit: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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

How big is it?: 6.6 cm × 12 cm. Smaller than your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection.
How was it made?: Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray and orange wash, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper, made in Denmark.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. 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.