The Clipper Ship Annie H. Smith
Antonio Jacobsen, 1917
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 26% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA full-rigged ship broadside under sail, painted late in Jacobsen's life, long after the age of sail had ended. Jacobsen painted thousands of them from a New Jersey parlor; by 1917 he was painting clippers from memory for men who missed them.
- Maker
- Antonio Jacobsen
- Date
- 1917
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Private collection
- Credit
- Private collection · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-02001
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 26% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 26% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 26% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,503 x 1,486 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 72, lights 180 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.93
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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