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Hog Slaughterers
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (editor) and Bernhard Schreuder (printmaker), after Gerard ter Borch the Younger (formerly Jan Pietersz Saenredam), 1778, published 1787
16 cm × 16 cm
About the size of your phone. You would need 11 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 16 cm
- Width
- 16 cm
- Medium
- etching, roulette, and mezzotint with burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper
- Kind
- 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 Sherwood B. Smith, Jr.
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 16 cm × 16 cm. About the size of your phone. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1778, published 1787. 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 Sherwood B. Smith, Jr..
- How was it made?
- Etching, roulette, and mezzotint with burnishing printed in black ink 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.
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.
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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.
