Anna Boleyn
Franz Christophe, 1920
$82
Print check at 8 x 10 in: 158 dpi, good. Trimmed 6.6% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A German placard of 1920 for the Ufa costume spectacle Anna Boleyn, designed by the Berlin artist Franz Christophe. Ernst Lubitsch's historical epics were the commercial engine that paid for Weimar cinema's stranger experiments, and they were shot on the same lots by the same crews. The costume picture and the horror picture are siblings, not rivals. Christophe came out of the Jugendstil illustration tradition, and the ornamental line here is far more decorative than the flat poster styles that were already displacing it. A beheading, drawn beautifully.
- Maker
- Franz Christophe
- Date
- 1920
- Medium of the original
- One-sheet poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00731
| Picture | 8 x 10 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 9.6 x 11.6 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 158 | Good | Trimmed 6.6% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | 115 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 105 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 79 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 52 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 35 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,270 x 1,700 px, srgb, sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 41, lights 208 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 22.23
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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