The Red Frangipani
Mark Catesby, 1731–1743
$270
Print check at 18 x 24 in: 166 dpi, good. Trimmed 1.3% to the shape of the print.
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From the Bahama Islands section of Mark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1731–1743), this plate records the red frangipani — a small flowering tree whose fragrant blossoms Catesby would have encountered on the Caribbean leg of the fieldwork that took him through the American colonies and islands over the better part of a decade, self-funded through subscriptions from English patrons. The composition is uncharacteristically spare for Catesby, who usually crowded a plate with a paired animal — here the flowering spray is left to fill the frame on its own, deep green leaves radiating around a central cluster of pink blooms. What to notice: Catesby's book predates Linnaeus's binomial naming system, so his plates carry the older, more descriptive Latin names naturalists used before the modern system standardized species identification.
- Maker
- Mark Catesby
- Date
- 1731–1743
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00258
| Picture | 18 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 19.6 x 25.6 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 | 379 | Excellent | Trimmed 5% |
| 11 x 14 in | 276 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.3% |
| 12 x 16 in | 250 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.3% |
| 16 x 20 in | 189 | Good | Trimmed 5% |
| 18 x 24 in | 166 | Good | Trimmed 1.3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 126 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,039 x 4,000 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 72, lights 220 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 20.03
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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