At the far western edge of the world lay a garden where three nymphs, the Hesperides, guarded a tree of golden apples with the help of the ever-wakeful dragon Ladon. Leighton paints them in perfect indolent harmony — three women drowsing and singing in a circle, the great serpent coiled affectionately around them and the tree, everyone at peace in the long golden afternoon before Hercules arrives to spoil it. The tondo, the circular format, turns the whole scene into an ornament, all curve and gold. It is late-Victorian classicism at its most sumptuous and most serene: paradise, painted in the moment just before the theft.

Maker: Frederic Leighton (1830 to 1896)
Date: c. 1892
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
Credit: Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00659

As chosen: 16 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	16 x 16 in
Outside size	17.6 x 17.6 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
16 x 16 in	172	Good	Trimmed 0.4%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
20 x 20 in	138 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 30 in	92 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

2,765 x 2,777 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 7, lights 255 of 255; 19.8% clipped light, 1.8% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

28.96

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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