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Miniature Album with Figures and Landscape

Zeng Yandong, 1822

1.70 m

Both at true scale.

7.7 cm × 4.4 cm

Smaller than a credit card. You would need 22 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 4.4 cm
Width: 7.7 cm
Medium: Album of twelve leaves, ink and color on paper
Kind: Painting
Made in: China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95)
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: Overall: 6.1 x 7.7 cm (2 3/8 x 3 1/16 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 7.7 cm × 6.1 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund

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

How big is it?: 7.7 cm × 4.4 cm. Smaller than a credit card. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1822. 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: Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund.
How was it made?: Album of twelve leaves, ink and color on paper, made in China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95), China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95).
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.