Clipper Ship Nightingale - Sailing Card
unattributed job printer, c. 1860
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 27% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe card of the Nightingale, named for Jenny Lind and carrying her portrait at the bow. Launched for the London Exhibition trade, she sailed every trade after - including, darkly, the slave trade before her Navy capture.
- Maker
- unattributed job printer
- Date
- c. 1860
- Medium of the original
- Chromolithographed clipper ship sailing card
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01914
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 27% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 26% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,600 x 932 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 54, lights 186 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 15.23
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