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Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills
Friedrich Salathé, 1816/1821
1.70 m
50 cm × 44 cm
About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 3 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 44 cm
- Width
- 50 cm
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite on two sheets of laid paper
- Kind
- Drawing
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- Credit
- New Century Fund
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 50 cm × 44 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1816/1821. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
- Whose is it?
- Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: New Century Fund.
- How was it made?
- Watercolor over graphite on two sheets of laid paper.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
The gallery's walk hangs a selection. This work can hang in a room of its own, with five works that hang well beside it, at their real size.
Hang it in the gallery Record at National Gallery of Art
Four works a week, shown at their real size
One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.
Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
