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The Bay of Naples with Mounts Vesuvius and Somma

Giovanni Battista Lusieri, 1782/1794

94 cm × 63 cm

About the size of a cafe table. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 63 cm
Width: 94 cm
Medium: watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper mounted to paperboard
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: Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

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

How big is it?: 94 cm × 63 cm. About the size of a cafe table. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1782/1794. 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: Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner.
How was it made?: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper mounted to paperboard.
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.