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Piazza San Marco, Venice

Francesco Guardi, 1780s

47 cm × 31 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 4 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 31 cm
Width: 47 cm
Medium: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with brush and gray wash (possibly chalk) and traces of black chalk, framing lines in brown and black ink
Kind: Drawing
Made in: Italy, Venice
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: Sheet: 31.3 x 46.5 cm (12 5/16 x 18 5/16 in.)
Credit: John L. Severance Fund

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

How big is it?: 47 cm × 31 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1780s. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: John L. Severance Fund.
How was it made?: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with brush and gray wash (possibly chalk) and traces of black chalk, framing lines in brown and black ink, made in Italy, Venice, Italy, Venice.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.