A horizontal world-tour sheet crowded with imps, demons and conjured wonders swirling around the master’s portrait. The self-coronation poster of the seventh world tour — alliteration as billing, the globe reduced to a supporting cast.

Maker: The Otis Lithograph Co., Cleveland (c.1927)
Medium of the original: Colour lithograph poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons (public domain, pre-1931)
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-02092

As chosen: 18 x 12 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 12 in
Outside size	19.6 x 13.6 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
12 x 8 in	238	Excellent	Trimmed 0.8%
18 x 12 in	159	Good	Trimmed 0.8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
14 x 11 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
16 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
20 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
24 x 16 in	119 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
30 x 20 in	95 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
36 x 24 in	79 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
48 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
60 x 40 in	47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged