Not every plate in Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum maps a city proper — this one, engraved by Simon Novellanus, surveys the Inn river valley in the Tyrolean Alps, the mountain landscape rendered with the same panoramic ambition the atlas usually reserved for urban skylines. Two inset panels at lower left and right add local detail: the Schlossberg fortress tucked into forested hills, and a monument commemorating Emperor Charles V, whose Habsburg empire once controlled this alpine trade corridor. What to notice: the crosshatched mountain slopes are engraved with an almost obsessive density, an attempt to convey real topographic drama through pure line work decades before contour mapping existed as a technique — Novellanus was essentially inventing a visual vocabulary for mountainous terrain as he etched it.

Maker: Simon Novellanus (Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, publishers)
Date: 1590
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00298

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 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
10 x 8 in	346	Excellent	Trimmed 7.8%
12 x 8 in	312	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
14 x 11 in	251	Excellent	Trimmed 6.1%
16 x 12 in	230	Excellent	Trimmed 1.6%
18 x 12 in	208	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
20 x 16 in	173	Good	Trimmed 7.8%
24 x 16 in	156	Good	Trimmed 9.7%
24 x 18 in	153	Good	Trimmed 1.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
30 x 20 in	125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 24 in	115 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	104 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 30 in	92 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	76 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged