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Saint Bonaventure Arriving and Preaching in Lyon

French 15th Century, 1480-1490

27 cm × 37 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: 37 cm
Width: 27 cm
Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in vermilion, orange-rose, light and dark gray-blue, and lavender
Kind: Print
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Rosenwald Collection

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

How big is it?: 27 cm × 37 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1480-1490. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Rosenwald Collection.
How was it made?: Woodcut, hand-colored in vermilion, orange-rose, light and dark gray-blue, and lavender.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at real size.

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.