Old Tom Morris at the Home of Golf
period photograph, c. 1901
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 29% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe Grand Old Man of golf — keeper of the green, four-time Open champion — photographed on his own ground. The publicity-clean lane at its purest: a long-gone Scot on public links, history with no strings. The turf: his employer, his monument, his life’s work underfoot. Some men become the place.
- Maker
- period photograph
- Date
- c. 1901
- Medium of the original
- Photograph
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00005
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 29% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 501 x 878 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 32, lights 210 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 19.02
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