The carillon in perspective: a pinned barrel the size of a wine cask, reading its tune the way a music box does, hammers poised over their bells. The Encyclopédie's engravers loved these perspective views because they show what a parts diagram cannot — the machine as a presence, something you could walk around. This is horology at architectural scale, the same escapement logic that fits in a pocket here filling a room, and it remains one of the handsomest machine engravings of the eighteenth century.

Maker: Robert Bénard, after Fossier
Date: 18th century
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Credit: Musée Carnavalet, Paris · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00531

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 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
10 x 8 in	349	Excellent	Trimmed 7.5%
12 x 8 in	314	Excellent	Trimmed 9.9%
14 x 11 in	253	Excellent	Trimmed 5.8%
16 x 12 in	232	Excellent	Trimmed 1.3%
18 x 12 in	209	Excellent	Trimmed 9.9%
20 x 16 in	174	Good	Trimmed 7.5%
24 x 16 in	157	Good	Trimmed 9.9%
24 x 18 in	155	Good	Trimmed 1.3%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
30 x 20 in	125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 24 in	116 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	104 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 30 in	93 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	77 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

3,774 x 2,793 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)

Tone

Darks 60, lights 216 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

343.18

Notes

Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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