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Campanile of a Cathedral for Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1831

19 cm × 29 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: 29 cm
Width: 19 cm
Medium: pen and gray ink with gray wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache, with a border in pen and green ink with gold wash, on wove paper laid down on card
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: Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

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

How big is it?: 19 cm × 29 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1831. 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: Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund.
How was it made?: Pen and gray ink with gray wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache, with a border in pen and green ink with gold wash, on wove paper laid down on card.
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.

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