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Game of Backgammon

Johann Esaias Nilson · 1721–1788

Maximum print size

33.0 × 21.1 cm · 13.0 × 8.3 in

at 300 DPI from the 3,894 × 2,501 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 8×10 inch frame.

Frame: 50.8 × 40.6 cm · 20.0 × 16.0 in
Mat opening: 33.0 × 21.1 cm · 13.0 × 8.3 in
Mat border, sides: 8.9 cm · 3.5 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 9.9 cm · 3.9 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date: 1741–88
Medium: Red chalk
Type: Drawings
Size: 18.9 × 29.6 cm · 7.4 × 11.7 in
Orientation: landscape
Subjects: Games, Men, Women
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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