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Standing Officer Holding a Boar's Spear

Hendrick Goltzius, 1586

1.70 m

Both at true scale.

16 cm × 21 cm

About the size of your phone. You would need 8 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 21 cm
Width: 16 cm
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red chalk with traces of white opaque watercolor over black chalk, on paper; traces of transfer
Kind: Drawing
Made in: Netherlands, Haarlem, 16th century
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: 20.6 x 15.6 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

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

How big is it?: 16 cm × 21 cm. About the size of your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1586. 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: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund.
How was it made?: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red chalk with traces of white opaque watercolor over black chalk, on paper; traces of transfer, made in Netherlands, Haarlem, 16th century, Netherlands, Haarlem, 16th century.
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.