Plan of the Old Course — Alister MacKenzie, 1924
Alister MacKenzie, 1924
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 45% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe most famous course on earth, surveyed by the doctor who became its greatest student — every bunker named, every contour argued. MacKenzie mapped the Old Course the way anatomists map a body; the plan is design scripture, published 1924. The bunker names — a toponymy of trouble, centuries deep. The ground was the first architect.
- Maker
- Alister MacKenzie
- Date
- 1924
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- Alister MacKenzie Institute
- Credit
- Alister MacKenzie Institute
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00015
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 45% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 34% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 44% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 42% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 34% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 45% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 34% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 42% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 34% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 45% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 34% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 42% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 42% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 34% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,041 x 893 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 120, lights 218 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 37.93
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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