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Boy with Anchor

Winslow Homer, 1873

35 cm × 19 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: 19 cm
Width: 35 cm
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
Kind: Drawing
Made in: America
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: 19.4 x 34.9 cm (7 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund

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

How big is it?: 35 cm × 19 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1873. 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: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund.
How was it made?: Watercolor and graphite on paper, made in America, America.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Cleveland 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.