A man stands on a dark crag, his back to us, gazing out over a sea of fog from which mountain peaks rise like islands. We never see his face — Friedrich makes him a Rückenfigur, a figure seen from behind, so that we stand in his boots and look out with him. It is the definitive image of Romanticism: the individual dwarfed and exalted at once, alone before a nature too vast to grasp. Two centuries on, it remains the picture we reach for when we mean awe — the sublime, given a coat and a walking stick.

Maker: Caspar David Friedrich (1774 to 1840)
Date: c. 1818
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: Hamburger Kunsthalle
Credit: Hamburger Kunsthalle · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00596

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 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 10 in	657	Excellent	Trimmed 2.6%
11 x 14 in	477	Excellent	Trimmed 0.8%
12 x 16 in	421	Excellent	Trimmed 3.8%
16 x 20 in	328	Excellent	Trimmed 2.6%
18 x 24 in	280	Excellent	Trimmed 3.8%
24 x 30 in	219	Excellent	Trimmed 2.6%
30 x 40 in	168	Good	Trimmed 3.8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
36 x 48 in	140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 5,256 x 6,742 px, srgb, c2
Tone: Darks 34, lights 205 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 51.77