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Alexander and Diogenes

Name: Alexander and Diogenes
Brand: Best in Show
SKU: PA-01745

Edwin Landseer, 1848

Best in ShowPA-01745Tear sheet

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 107 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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A swaggering white bulldog and his retinue call upon a philosophical mongrel living in a barrel, who declines to be impressed. Classical philosophy restaged in a London street — the ancient standoff between power and independence, cast entirely with dogs.

Maker: Edwin Landseer
Date: 1848
Medium of the original: Oil on canvas
Original held by: Tate
Credit: Tate · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01745

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.

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Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	107 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
14 x 11 in	78 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 12 in	69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
20 x 16 in	53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
24 x 18 in	46 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
30 x 24 in	35 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
40 x 30 in	27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	23 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop