A Hexandrian Lily
Priscilla Susan Bury, 1831–1834
$140
Print check at 12 x 16 in: 187 dpi, good. Trimmed 3.7% 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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Priscilla Bury painted the lilies and amaryllis of her own garden on some of the largest botanical plates ever made — great hand-coloured aquatints so vivid the flowers seem to lean out of the paper. A gentlewoman's private passion that became one of the most magnificent flower books of the age. Printed large, as she intended, it is overwhelming in exactly the way she meant it to be.
- Maker
- Priscilla Susan Bury
- Date
- 1831–1834
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- National Gallery of Art, Washington · via Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- National Gallery of Art, Washington · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00995
| Picture | 12 x 16 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 x 17.6 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 | 292 | Excellent | Trimmed 2.7% |
| 11 x 14 in | 212 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.9% |
| 12 x 16 in | 187 | Good | Trimmed 3.7% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 146 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 75 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,336 x 3,000 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 56, lights 238 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 2.3% vivid
- Sharpness
- 8.89
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