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What We Have We'll Hold

Name: What We Have We'll Hold
Brand: Best in Show
SKU: PA-01767

Maud Earl, 1914

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 59 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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A white bulldog plants itself foursquare on a draped Union Jack, a warship on the grey horizon behind, and declines to move. Painted in the first year of the Great War by the era's foremost dog painter — the bulldog becoming the national temperament in oils.

Maker: Maud Earl
Date: 1914
Medium of the original: Oil on canvas
Original held by: Private collection
Credit: Private collection · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01767

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.

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Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	59 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
14 x 11 in	43 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 12 in	39 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
20 x 16 in	29 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
24 x 18 in	26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
30 x 24 in	19 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
40 x 30 in	15 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	13 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop