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Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach

James McNeill Whistler, 1863

69 cm × 51 cm

About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 51 cm
Width: 69 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Kind: Painting
Made in: London
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: 50.8 × 68.6 cm (20 × 27 in.)
Credit: Gift of Honoré and Potter Palmer

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

How big is it?: 69 cm × 51 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1863. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Gift of Honoré and Potter Palmer.
How was it made?: Oil on canvas, made in London, Impressionism.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. 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.