Going North, King's Cross Station
George Earl, 1893
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 29% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyKing's Cross platform on the eve of the grouse season: sportsmen, luggage mountains and a milling crowd of setters, pointers and terriers bound for Scotland. The great panorama of Victorian sporting society, in which the dogs are unmistakably the most important passengers.
- Maker
- George Earl
- Date
- 1893
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- National Railway Museum, York
- Credit
- National Railway Museum, York · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01755
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 |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,200 x 681 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 6, lights 159 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0.2% vivid
- Sharpness
- 13.02
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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