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Adonias Imploring the Grace of Solomon or Jeroboam Kneeling before Rehoboam

Charles-Paul-Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys, after Amico Aspertini (attributed to; formerly after Raphael), c. 1770/1795

31 cm × 19 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: 19 cm
Width: 31 cm
Medium: etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
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: Gift of James A. Bergquist in honor of Jamie Gabbarelli

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

How big is it?: 31 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 c. 1770/1795. 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 James A. Bergquist in honor of Jamie Gabbarelli.
How was it made?: Etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper.
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.