Clipper Ship Hornet - Sailing Card
unattributed job printer, c. 1860
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 22% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe sailing card of the Hornet, famous for a dead-heat race to San Francisco and a fiery end. Her 1866 burning and the crew's 43-day open-boat survival gave Mark Twain his first famous story.
- Maker
- unattributed job printer
- Date
- c. 1860
- 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-01918
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 22% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | 68 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | 45 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 34 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 22 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | 13 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 884 x 550 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 67, lights 226 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 26.2
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