A breeder's sheet lines up the American trotting stud's sires and dams, Flora Temple among them alongside Mambino Pilot. Flora Temple was already a legend by the time this sheet was printed — the first trotter to beat 2:20 for the mile — and breeders bought prints like this one hoping her speed would carry into the next generation. each horse posed separately in its own frame, arranged more like a catalogue than a single scene. A pedigree is a bet placed years before the race.

Maker: Currier & Ives, hand-coloured lithograph
Date: c.1872
Medium of the original: Lithograph
Original held by: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
Credit: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00102

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 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
10 x 8 in	911	Excellent	Trimmed 1.2%
14 x 11 in	651	Excellent	Trimmed 2.9%
16 x 12 in	569	Excellent	Trimmed 7.4%
20 x 16 in	455	Excellent	Trimmed 1.2%
24 x 18 in	379	Excellent	Trimmed 7.4%
30 x 24 in	303	Excellent	Trimmed 1.2%
40 x 30 in	227	Excellent	Trimmed 7.4%
48 x 36 in	189	Good	Trimmed 7.4%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop