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Design for "The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1774: Hercules and the Dragon in the Garden of the Hesperides"

Paolo Posi and Giuseppe Palazzi, 1774

54 cm × 40 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: 40 cm
Width: 54 cm
Medium: pen and gray ink with gray wash on laid paper, laid down
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: Purchased as the Gift of Vincent J. Buonanno

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

How big is it?: 54 cm × 40 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1774. 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: Purchased as the Gift of Vincent J. Buonanno.
How was it made?: Pen and gray ink with gray wash on laid paper, laid down.
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.