Old Tom Morris on St Andrews Links
Scottish School, c. 1900
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 22% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyOld Tom Morris in oils, standing on the links he tended for forty years — a small painting of a large institution. The clubhouse portrait tradition applied to a working greenkeeper: the game promoting its own servant to its own saint. The ground gets as much canvas as the man — the painter knew which was the monument. Tend the ground and the game tends you.
- Maker
- Scottish School
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00008
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 22% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,003 x 1,600 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)
- Tone
- Darks 60, lights 180 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 16.5
- Notes
- Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
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