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Design cover for West Point Song of the Graduates

James McNeill Whistler, 1852

27 cm × 34 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: 34 cm
Width: 27 cm
Medium: Transfer lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
Kind: Print
Made in: United States
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: Image: 33.6 × 22.2 cm (13 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 22 cm × 34 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Gift of Walter S. Brewster

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

How big is it?: 27 cm × 34 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1852. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Gift of Walter S. Brewster.
How was it made?: Transfer lithograph in black on off-white wove paper, made in United States.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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.