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Woman and Child, Showing How the Heads of Children are Flattened

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Maximum print size

20.8 × 25.4 cm · 8.2 × 10.0 in

at 300 DPI from the 2,462 × 3,000 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 8×10 inch frame.

Frame: 27.9 × 35.6 cm · 11.0 × 14.0 in
Mat opening: 20.8 × 25.4 cm · 8.2 × 10.0 in
Mat border, sides: 3.6 cm · 1.4 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 5.1 cm · 2.0 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date: 1837-1839?
Medium: oil on canvas
Type: Painting
Size: 73.7 × 60.9 cm · 29.0 × 24.0 in
Orientation: portrait
Collection: Smithsonian Institution ↗

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Manuscript

Court of King Mindon or Thibaw, or associated workshops