Long Branch Beach (Summer Day on the New Jersey Coast)
Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1867
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 42% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA long low strand under summer haze, surf and sand dissolved into one continuous breath of light. Gifford's pictures were praised as painted air — here the Jersey shore is mostly atmosphere, lightly shored up by land.
- Maker
- Sanford Robinson Gifford
- Date
- 1867
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Palmer Museum of Art (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Credit
- Palmer Museum of Art (via Wikimedia Commons) · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01968
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 42% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 31% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 41% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 38% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 31% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 42% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 31% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 38% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 31% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 42% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 31% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 38% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 38% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 31% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,894 x 1,336 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 87, lights 155 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.38
- Notes
- Narrow tonal range (27 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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