Leon & Adelaide Herrmann — The Heirs Together
Period studio photograph
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 13% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA studio portrait pairing Adelaide with Leon, the Paris-trained nephew called from France to inherit Herrmann the Great. It documents the uneasy joint succession — two heirs, one crown, before they parted to tour alone.
- Maker
- Period studio photograph
- Medium of the original
- Colour lithograph poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-02105
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 | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 49 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 35 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 23 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 19 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 16 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 14 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 588 x 847 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 27, lights 178 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 13.99
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