A jeweled feather-turban and two enormous eyes float on a furnace-red ground, staring straight through the reader. The best-selling single image of the whole golden age — sold as a promise of omniscience, not a magic trick.

Maker: Unattributed U.S. show-printer (McManus-Young Collection)
Medium of the original: Colour lithograph poster
Original held by: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Credit: Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-02087

As chosen: 12 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	12 x 18 in
Outside size	13.6 x 19.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	244	Excellent	Trimmed 0.9%
12 x 18 in	163	Good	Trimmed 0.9%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
16 x 24 in	122 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
20 x 30 in	97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
24 x 36 in	81 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
40 x 60 in	48 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged