Faithful Friends
John Emms, c. 1900
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyFour Clumber spaniels gather under the pines with the day's bag, a working partnership photographed in oils at the moment of knocking off. Emms painted gundogs the way others painted regiments — this is the muster roll of a first-rate shooting team.
- Maker
- John Emms
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
- Credit
- Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01753
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 | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 8 in | 66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | 53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 12 in | 48 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | 44 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | 36 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | 32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | 24 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | 22 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 19 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 16 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 13 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 800 x 584 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 17, lights 199 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 15.81
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