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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai, 1830/33

38 cm × 25 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 5 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 25 cm
Width: 38 cm
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban
Kind: Print
Made in: Japan
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: 25.4 × 37.6 cm (10 × 14 3/4 in.)
Credit: Clarence Buckingham Collection

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

How big is it?: 38 cm × 25 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1830/33. 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: Clarence Buckingham Collection.
How was it made?: Color woodblock print; oban, made in Japan, Japanese (culture or style).
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.