Sleighs and trotting cracks race abreast over packed snow, the road-wagon match moved onto a winter track of ice and runners. Thomas Worth turned the gentleman's road match into a season sport, proving Currier & Ives could sell speed in January as readily as July. The breath of the horses, hanging visible in the cold air. Winter didn't slow the wager, it just changed the wheels.

Maker: Currier & Ives after Thomas Worth, hand-coloured lithograph
Date: c.1858
Medium of the original: Lithograph
Original held by: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00110

As chosen: 24 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 16 in
Outside size	25.6 x 17.6 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	488	Excellent	Trimmed 2.3%
18 x 12 in	325	Excellent	Trimmed 2.3%
24 x 16 in	244	Excellent	Trimmed 2.3%
30 x 20 in	195	Good	Trimmed 2.3%
36 x 24 in	162	Good	Trimmed 2.3%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
14 x 11 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
16 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
20 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
24 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
30 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
40 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
48 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
60 x 40 in	97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged