The Prickly Samphire
Ferdinand Bauer, for John Sibthorp, 1806–1840
$191
Print check at 16 x 20 in: 198 dpi, good. Trimmed 6.4% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A carrot relative that grows on Mediterranean beaches, armed all over with spines, its flower heads held in flat plates above a rosette built like a piece of engineering. The umbellifers are the family that includes the carrot, the parsnip, hemlock and the plant that killed Socrates, and telling them apart is a matter of small structural details — which is precisely what Bauer's dissections along the margin are for. In this family, the difference between dinner and death is a detail at the margin.
- 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-01066
| Picture | 16 x 20 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 21.6 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 397 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.4% |
| 11 x 14 in | 284 | Excellent | Trimmed 8.1% |
| 16 x 20 in | 198 | Good | Trimmed 6.4% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 132 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,400 x 3,976 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 113, lights 250 of 255; 0.8% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.7
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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