Salem Harbor
Fitz Henry Lane, 1853
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 21% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buySalem's old East India anchorage in a flat calm, vessels doubled cleanly in water gone to mirror. Painted when Salem's great trading days were already memory — Lane gives the harbor its dignity back in stillness.
- Maker
- Fitz Henry Lane
- Date
- 1853
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Credit
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (via Wikimedia Commons) · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01960
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 21% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | 125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | 25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,600 x 1,005 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 32, lights 207 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 5.33
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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