A Spanish-language export poster for L'Inferno (1911), the first Italian feature-length film, printed by the Officine Grafiche G. Ricordi in Milan. L'Inferno was cinema's first full-length adaptation of a literary monument, built from Doré's engravings and sold worldwide. This sheet is the machinery of that export — Italian art, Spanish text, a global audience assumed. Ugolino's tower rendered with engraving discipline rather than poster shorthand; Ricordi's presses were a music-publishing house, and the line has that fineness. The oldest poem in Italian, hauled onto the newest surface in the world.

Maker: Officine Grafiche G. Ricordi, Milan
Date: 1911
Medium of the original: One-sheet poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00815

As chosen: 8 x 12 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	8 x 12 in
Outside size	9.6 x 13.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	160	Good	Trimmed 5%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
12 x 16 in	112 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 18 in	106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
16 x 24 in	80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	74 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	64 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 36 in	53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	44 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	37 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 1,347 x 1,920 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 58, lights 202 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 15.58