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A Physionotrace Portraitist

Christoph-Wilhelm Bock, 1802

1.70 m

Both at true scale.

10 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: 10 cm
Medium: Engraving on buff wove paper, matted together with photograph of ticket for physionotrace sitting
Kind: Print
Made in: Germany
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: 15.5 × 9 cm (6 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 9.0 cm × 16 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment

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

How big is it?: 10 cm × 16 cm. About the size of your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1802. 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: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment.
How was it made?: Engraving on buff wove paper, matted together with photograph of ticket for physionotrace sitting, made in Germany.
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.