David Devant — The Indian Rope Trick
Period stage illustration
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 28% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyAn illustration of Devant staging the fabled Indian rope trick, a rope rising rigid and a boy climbing it into nothing. Devant made the traveller’s legend a theatrical reality, the first to mount it credibly on a Western stage.
- Maker
- Period stage illustration
- Medium of the original
- Colour lithograph poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-02107
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 |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 403 x 699 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 38, lights 255 of 255; 17% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 5.51
- Notes
- Pure white on 17% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
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