Carrie A. Nation, c. 1900
Unknown, 1900
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 14% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA studio portrait of Carrie Nation, posed with the hatchet and Bible that made her the temperance movement's single most recognizable figure. This house's whole argument needs a face on the other side of the bar — this is the one nearly everyone already recognizes. The composure of the pose — not the wild-eyed caricature later cartoons made of her, a controlled studio portrait, on her own terms. She got her law. This house exists because she eventually lost the argument too.
- Maker
- Unknown
- Date
- 1900
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00582
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 | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 953 x 1,024 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 26, lights 232 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 0.29
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