The Cornish Riviera — GWR Poster, Louis Burleigh Bruhl, 1928
Louis Burleigh Bruhl, 1928
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyLouis Burleigh Bruhl’s poster for the Great Western Railway’s "Cornish Riviera" seaside service. A domestic counterpart to the LNER’s continental posters elsewhere on this shelf — GWR sold Cornwall itself as a destination worth the same design investment. A coastal scene reduced to broad, sunlit color fields — a British seaside sold with continental glamour. The coast next door, sold like somewhere far away.
- Maker
- Louis Burleigh Bruhl
- Date
- 1928
- Medium of the original
- Travel poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00893
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 | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | 40 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 12 in | 35 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | 23 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | 18 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 14 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 11 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 564 x 450 px, srgb, HD 709-A
- Tone
- Darks 1, lights 232 of 255; 0.1% clipped light, 5.3% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 45.12
- Notes
- Colour profile HD 709-A, converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
- Transparent areas flattened onto white
- Shadows clip on 5% of the image: the darkest areas print as solid black
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