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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

Francesco Hayez, c. 1827

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots by Francesco Hayez
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots by Francesco Hayez, 32 cm × 44 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

32 cm × 44 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 4 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 44 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
44 cm
Width
32 cm
Medium
lithograph on wove 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
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

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

How big is it?
32 cm × 44 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made c. 1827. 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: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
How was it made?
Lithograph on wove paper.
Who speaks for it?
Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Hangs well beside

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