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Study for "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way"

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, c. 1862

51 cm × 32 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: 32 cm
Width: 51 cm
Medium: graphite on gray-green wove paper
Kind: Drawing
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist, 1917)

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

How big is it?: 51 cm × 32 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made c. 1862. 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: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist, 1917).
How was it made?: Graphite on gray-green wove paper.
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.

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Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.