Dreadnought, a Fast Clipper Ship
Currier & Ives, c. 1860
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 102 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe 'Wild Boat of the Atlantic' on the Liverpool run she made famous under Captain Samuels. Dreadnought kept packet schedules under sail alone and became a folk song before she became a wreck.
- Maker
- Currier & Ives
- Date
- c. 1860
- Medium of the original
- Hand-colored lithograph
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01911
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 |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 102 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 12 in | 64 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | 51 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | 34 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 21 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,029 x 825 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 9, lights 255 of 255; 6.7% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 14.29
- Notes
- Pure white on 7% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
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