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Twenty-two Houses and a Church
American 19th Century, mid 19th century
1.70 m
77 cm × 61 cm
About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 61 cm
- Width
- 77 cm
- Medium
- water-based medium on canvas
- Kind
- Painting
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- Credit
- Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 77 cm × 61 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made mid 19th century. 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: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch.
- How was it made?
- Water-based medium on canvas.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
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Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
