Icarus has fallen, and three sea nymphs have gathered his body onto a rock — but Draper leaves the enormous bronze-gold wings attached, spread beneath him like a broken altarpiece, so the instrument of the pride and the ruin is still in the picture. The nymphs mourn a boy they never knew. Above, the sky burns out into the white heat that melted the wax. Draper won a Royal Academy gold medal and the painting entered the national collection at once. Ambition, brilliance, and the fall, arranged with real tenderness — the myth everyone recognises the moment they see it.

Maker: Herbert James Draper (1863 to 1920)
Date: 1898
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: Tate Britain, London
Credit: Tate Britain, London · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00626

As chosen: 11 x 14 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	11 x 14 in
Outside size	12.6 x 15.6 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 10 in	270	Excellent	Trimmed 5.4%
11 x 14 in	193	Good	Trimmed 7.1%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
16 x 20 in	135 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
24 x 30 in	90 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop