The Ship Young America at Sea
Antonio Jacobsen, 1915
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 25% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe celebrated New York clipper Young America under sail, painted in 1915, decades after her working life. Jacobsen outlived the ships he painted and kept painting them anyway; memorial portraits were steady work.
- Maker
- Antonio Jacobsen
- Date
- 1915
- 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-02000
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 25% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 4,039 x 2,411 px, srgb, GIMP built-in sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 34, lights 227 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 118.54
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