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A Wet Day on the Boulevard, Paris

Alfred Stieglitz, 1894, printed 1918/32

A Wet Day on the Boulevard, Paris by Alfred Stieglitz
A Wet Day on the Boulevard, Paris by Alfred Stieglitz, 10 cm × 5.6 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

10 cm × 5.6 cm

Smaller than your phone. You would need 16 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 5.6 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
5.6 cm
Width
10 cm
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Kind
Photograph
Made in
United States
Where the measurement comes from
Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it
Image/paper/first mount: 5.6 × 10.4 cm (2 1/4 × 4 1/8 in.)
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection

Ask this work

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

How big is it?
10 cm × 5.6 cm. Smaller than your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1894, printed 1918/32. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?
Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Alfred Stieglitz Collection.
How was it made?
Gelatin silver print, made in United States, Pictorialism.
Who speaks for it?
Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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