The Steamboat Fanny
James Bard, 1831
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 27% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyAn early Bard watercolor of the steamboat Fanny, built 1825, from the first years of his sixty-year run. Bard was a teenager when he started drawing the Hudson fleet with his twin brother John; the river kept him supplied for life.
- Maker
- James Bard
- Date
- 1831
- Medium of the original
- Watercolor on paper
- Original held by
- Private collection
- Credit
- Private collection · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01981
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 | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 26% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,248 x 1,900 px, srgb, EPSON sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 88, lights 224 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 109.06
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