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Cartouche Moderne with a Young Couple Being Served Wine

Johann Esaias Nilson

27 cm × 16 cm

About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 6 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 16 cm
Width: 27 cm
Medium: etching [counterproof] with drawing in pen and black ink and gray wash, on laid paper incised with grounding in red chalk for transfer on verso
Kind: Print
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

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

How big is it?: 27 cm × 16 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: 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: Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
How was it made?: Etching [counterproof] with drawing in pen and black ink and gray wash, on laid paper incised with grounding in red chalk for transfer on verso.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at real size.

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.