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Decoupage Album
Martin Engelbrecht (engraver and publisher), and (etcher-engravers) Andreas Hofer, Hieronymus Bölmann, Johann Christian Leopold, Anonymous German 18th Century, c.1740
25 cm × 37 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
- 37 cm
- Width
- 25 cm
- Medium
- bound album with nearly 1300 hand-colored etchings, cut out and pasted down onto ruled laid paper
- Kind
- Volume
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Evelyn Kraus
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 25 cm × 37 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made c.1740. 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: Gift of Peter and Evelyn Kraus.
- How was it made?
- Bound album with nearly 1300 hand-colored etchings, cut out and pasted down onto ruled 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
This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at real size.
Walk 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.
