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Mausolée à l'Extrémité Ouest de la Colonnade, Palmyre (Mausoleum at the Western End of the Colonnade, Palmyra)

Louis Vignes, 1864

Mausolée à l'Extrémité Ouest de la Colonnade, Palmyre (Mausoleum at the Western End of the Colonnade, Palmyra)
 by Louis Vignes
Mausolée à l'Extrémité Ouest de la Colonnade, Palmyre (Mausoleum at the Western End of the Colonnade, Palmyra)
 by Louis Vignes, 25 cm × 19 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

25 cm × 19 cm

About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 7 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 19 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
19 cm
Width
25 cm
Medium
albumen silver print
Kind
Photograph
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 Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Ph.D

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

How big is it?
25 cm × 19 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1864. 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 Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Ph.D.
How was it made?
Albumen silver print.
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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