A Jack in Office
Edwin Landseer, 1833
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 120 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA well-fed terrier sits atop a cat's-meat barrow, guarding his employer's stock from a deputation of hungry street dogs. Landseer's sharpest social satire — petty officialdom skewered without a single human in frame.
- Maker
- Edwin Landseer
- Date
- 1833
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Lady Lever Art Gallery
- Credit
- Lady Lever Art Gallery · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01743
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 |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 120 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 60 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 40 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,064 x 1,200 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 39, lights 255 of 255; 19.7% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 2.52
- Notes
- Pure white on 20% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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