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Study of a Female Head

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1890

28 cm × 38 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: 38 cm
Width: 28 cm
Medium: Yellow, red, and green pastel with fabricated black crayon on red paper
Kind: Drawings
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: 14 13/16 x 10 9/16 in. (37.6 x 26.9 cm)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 27 cm × 38 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

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

How big is it?: 28 cm × 38 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1890. It is in the public domain, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.
How was it made?: Yellow, red, and green pastel with fabricated black crayon on red paper.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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.