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Church Interior

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (editor) and Bernhard Schreuder (printmaker), after Pieter Jansz Saenredam, 1774

Church Interior by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (editor) and Bernhard Schreuder (printmaker), after Pieter Jansz Saenredam
Church Interior by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (editor) and Bernhard Schreuder (printmaker), after Pieter Jansz Saenredam, 15 cm × 19 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

15 cm × 19 cm

About the size of your phone. You would need 9 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 19 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
19 cm
Width
15 cm
Medium
roulette and etching with burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper and hand-colored with wash
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
Gift of Sherwood B. Smith, Jr.

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

How big is it?
15 cm × 19 cm. About the size of your phone. 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: Gift of Sherwood B. Smith, Jr..
How was it made?
Roulette and etching with burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper and hand-colored with wash.
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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