The opening statement of the Encyclopédie's great horlogerie suite: the watchmaker's works and tools laid out with the same care a cartographer would give a coastline. Above, the atelier itself — apprentices at the window bench, the master at his wheel; below, the instruments of the trade ranked and lettered for the reader. This is the Enlightenment's founding claim about craft: that even the most secretive trade could be drawn, named, and understood. The engraved workshop is where measured time was made by hand.

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-00529

As chosen: 16 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	16 x 24 in
Outside size	17.6 x 25.6 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	310	Excellent	Trimmed 6.6%
11 x 14 in	242	Excellent	Trimmed 9.1%
12 x 16 in	221	Excellent	Trimmed 4.8%
12 x 18 in	207	Excellent	Trimmed 6.6%
16 x 24 in	155	Good	Trimmed 6.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
18 x 24 in	147 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	124 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
24 x 36 in	103 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	88 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

2,663 x 3,730 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)

Tone

Darks 69, lights 203 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

142.64

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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