The Sea of Ice
Caspar David Friedrich (1774 to 1840), 1823–1824
$270
Print check at 24 x 18 in: 197 dpi, good. Trimmed 1.3% 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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Great plates of ice have been driven up into a jagged pyramid, and only when you have looked for a while do you find the ship — the stern of a wrecked vessel, barely visible, being ground under at the right. No survivors, no rescue, no human figure at all. Friedrich painted it after studying broken ice on the Elbe, and it was rejected in his lifetime as too bleak to hang. It is now understood as one of the most modern paintings of the nineteenth century: nature entirely indifferent, beautiful, and unanswerable. The sublime with the consolation taken out.
- Maker
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774 to 1840)
- Date
- 1823–1824
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
- Credit
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00615
| 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 451 | Excellent | Trimmed 5% |
| 14 x 11 in | 328 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.3% |
| 16 x 12 in | 297 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.3% |
| 20 x 16 in | 225 | Excellent | Trimmed 5% |
| 24 x 18 in | 197 | Good | Trimmed 1.3% |
| 30 x 24 in | 150 | Good | Trimmed 5% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 118 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 98 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 4,752 x 3,612 px, srgb, c2
- Tone
- Darks 23, lights 216 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 7.7
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