The Flora Graeca is the most costly botanical work ever undertaken: Sibthorp travelled the eastern Mediterranean with Ferdinand Bauer in the 1780s, died young, and left his entire estate in trust to publish the results. It took forty years and ten volumes, and only about thirty complete sets were made. Bauer drew every plate from field sketches coded by number, as he later would in Australia. A man left his whole fortune to finish a book he would never see.

Maker: Ferdinand Bauer, for John Sibthorp
Date: 1806–1840
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01063

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	418	Excellent	Trimmed 7.1%
12 x 18 in	278	Excellent	Trimmed 7.1%
16 x 24 in	209	Excellent	Trimmed 7.1%
20 x 30 in	167	Good	Trimmed 7.1%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 23% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 23% crop
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 23% crop
24 x 36 in	139 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
40 x 60 in	83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

3,345 x 5,400 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 161, lights 250 of 255; 0.6% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

6.92

Notes

Narrow tonal range (32 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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