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John Carlyle Herbert

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1807

41 cm × 54 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: 54 cm
Width: 41 cm
Medium: charcoal and pastel on pink prepared 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: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Thomas A. Herbert and Robert Beverley Herbert in memory of their father, Edward Herbert, and Guy F. Herbert, W. Pinkney Herbert, and R. Beverley Herbert, Sr., 1964)

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

How big is it?: 41 cm × 54 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1807. 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: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Thomas A. Herbert and Robert Beverley Herbert in memory of their father, Edward Herbert, and Guy F. Herbert, W. Pinkney Herbert, and R. Beverley Herbert, Sr., 1964).
How was it made?: Charcoal and pastel on pink prepared paper.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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