Clipper Ship Flying Fish - Sailing Card
unattributed job printer, c. 1855
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 27% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe card of McKay's Flying Fish, twice within days of the San Francisco record. She and Flying Cloud were stablemates in the great deep-sea derby of 1852 - handbills were the race coverage.
- Maker
- unattributed job printer
- Date
- c. 1855
- Medium of the original
- Chromolithographed clipper ship sailing card
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01907
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 |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 26% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 803 x 1,373 px, srgb, GIMP built-in sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 69, lights 229 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 5.62
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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