A string of trotting cracks pulled up at a country forge, the smith's lamp lighting the road horses while their drivers wait out a shoe. Thomas Worth built a second act for Currier & Ives beyond the winner's sheet — the road-wagon set as a fraternity, its ritual stops as much the subject as the speed. The steam off a horse's flank in the cold air, close by the forge fire. Even the fastest road needs a blacksmith.

Maker: Currier & Ives after Thomas Worth, hand-coloured lithograph
Date: c.1869
Medium of the original: Lithograph
Original held by: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00109

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
12 x 8 in	500	Excellent	Trimmed 6.1%
14 x 11 in	387	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
16 x 12 in	354	Excellent	Trimmed 5.4%
18 x 12 in	333	Excellent	Trimmed 6.1%
24 x 16 in	250	Excellent	Trimmed 6.1%
24 x 18 in	236	Excellent	Trimmed 5.4%
30 x 20 in	200	Excellent	Trimmed 6.1%
36 x 24 in	166	Good	Trimmed 6.1%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
20 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
40 x 30 in	141 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	118 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged