American Yachts, Extra Plate: For the America's Cup, 1885 - Near the Finish. Puritan, Genesta
Frederic S. Cozzens, 1885
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 14% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyCozzens added an extra plate to his portfolio for the 1885 match - Boston's Puritan holding off the English cutter Genesta. An artist stopping the presses for a boat race: that is what 1885 felt like.
- Maker
- Frederic S. Cozzens
- Date
- 1885
- Medium of the original
- Chromolithograph
- Original held by
- Royal Museums Greenwich
- Credit
- Royal Museums Greenwich · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01934
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 | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | 106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | 71 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | 49 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 35 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 29 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 24 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 21 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,280 x 884 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)
- Tone
- Darks 114, lights 194 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.73
- Notes
- Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
- Narrow tonal range (30 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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