Church painted this in 1860, with the country a year from war, and left it entirely empty of people — no settler, no path, no smoke. Only a still lake, black spruce, a far ridge, and above it a sky burning through every register of orange and crimson into cold green, the clouds drawn out in long banners. He had studied real skies obsessively in oil sketches, and the colour here is observed, not invented. An American landscape offered as scripture: the wilderness at the last moment of light, magnificent and about to go dark. The high-water mark of the Hudson River School.

Maker: Frederic Edwin Church (1826 to 1900)
Date: 1860
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: The Cleveland Museum of Art · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00619

As chosen: 24 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 16 in
Outside size	25.6 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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
12 x 8 in	389	Excellent	Trimmed 6.6%
18 x 12 in	259	Excellent	Trimmed 6.5%
24 x 16 in	194	Good	Trimmed 6.6%
30 x 20 in	155	Good	Trimmed 6.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
14 x 11 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
16 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
20 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
24 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
30 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
36 x 24 in	129 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
48 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
60 x 40 in	77 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged