Beenleigh Rum, 1921
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, hosted on Wikimedia Commons., 1921
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 99 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA print advertisement for Beenleigh Rum, built around the tagline "A 'nip' before the 'dip'!" — pot-still rum advertising from Australia's oldest continuously operating distillery. Beenleigh is a live Australian distillery today — sold here strictly as art history, flagged live throughout. The swimming-culture pitch — this is rum sold on an Australian beach-and-surf sensibility, a different lifestyle register than anything else in this house. The distillery never stopped. The pitch is a hundred years old.
- Maker
- John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
- Date
- 1921
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- John Oxley Library / Picture Queensland
- Credit
- John Oxley Library / Picture Queensland · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00589
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 |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 99 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | 71 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 49 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 20 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 798 x 1,000 px, b-w
- Tone
- Darks 26, lights 252 of 255; 1.9% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 74.5
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