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Belisane and Parcival under the Enchantment of Urma

John Raphael Smith after Henry Fuseli, 1782

56 cm × 45 cm

About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 3 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 45 cm
Width: 56 cm
Medium: mezzotint in brown-black ink on laid paper
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: Paul Mellon Fund

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

How big is it?: 56 cm × 45 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1782. 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: Paul Mellon Fund.
How was it made?: Mezzotint in brown-black ink on laid paper.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

The gallery's walk hangs a selection. This work can hang in a room of its own, with five works that hang well beside it, at their 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.