Clipper Ship Comet of New York in a Hurricane off Bermuda
N. Currier (after Charles Parsons), 1855
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 119 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe Comet laid nearly on her beam ends in the October 1852 hurricane, storm canvas straining. Parsons drew disaster survived, not disaster - the print sold the nerve of the trade, not its wrecks.
- Maker
- N. Currier (after Charles Parsons)
- Date
- 1855
- Medium of the original
- Hand-colored lithograph
- Original held by
- Royal Museums Greenwich
- Credit
- Royal Museums Greenwich · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01896
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 |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 119 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | 86 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 12 in | 79 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | 59 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | 52 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | 39 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 31 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,280 x 953 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)
- Tone
- Darks 79, lights 230 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 5.34
- Notes
- Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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