Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor
Fitz Henry Lane, 1862
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 buyLate light over the old fort ground, the harbor laid flat as hammered pewter, sail after sail becalmed. Painted three years before Lane's death — the harbor he was born beside, given back as pure light.
- Maker
- Fitz Henry Lane
- Date
- 1862
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (open access)
- Credit
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (open access)
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01964
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
- 3,811 x 2,281 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 10, lights 190 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.9% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 0.76
- Notes
- Soft fine detail at full resolution: smaller sizes print crisper
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