Ernst Deutsch-Dryden's 1914 poster for Die falsche Asta Nielsen, a picture built on the premise of a performer being impersonated. The sheet is held by the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. By 1914 the leading player of German-language cinema was famous enough that her imitation could carry a feature on its own — and famous enough that the joke needed no explaining on a poster. The film is a measure of how fast screen celebrity had become a commodity with its own counterfeits. Dryden had drawn the genuine article on at least three earlier sheets; here the same hand is deployed on the copy, which is the whole gag rendered in lithography. Fame reaching the stage where the forgery is worth advertising.

Maker: Ernst Deutsch-Dryden
Date: 1914
Medium of the original: One-sheet poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00739

As chosen: 8 x 12 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	8 x 12 in
Outside size	9.6 x 13.6 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
8 x 12 in	166	Good	Trimmed 2.3%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
12 x 18 in	111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
16 x 24 in	83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
20 x 30 in	66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
24 x 36 in	55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
40 x 60 in	33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged