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The Rape of the Sabine Women and The Triumph of Two Emperors

Cherubino Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio, c. 1600

2.23 m × 22 cm

It would not fit through your front door. Stood on end it is 1.3 people tall.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 22 cm
Width: 2.23 m
Medium: five engravings printed on separate pieces of yellow silk satin backed with heavy 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: Patrons' Permanent Fund

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

How big is it?: 2.23 m × 22 cm. It would not fit through your front door. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made c. 1600. 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: Patrons' Permanent Fund.
How was it made?: Five engravings printed on separate pieces of yellow silk satin backed with heavy 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.