The biggest Cup boat ever built - Reliance, over 200 feet from bowsprit tip to boom end - against Lipton's third Shamrock. The extreme end of the Victorian arms race; after this, the rules changed to make it stop.

Maker: Unknown photographer
Date: 1903
Medium of the original: Photograph
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01947

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	360	Excellent	Trimmed 6.1%
14 x 11 in	262	Excellent	Trimmed 4.3%
16 x 12 in	240	Excellent	Trimmed 0.2%
20 x 16 in	180	Good	Trimmed 6.1%
24 x 18 in	160	Good	Trimmed 0.2%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 24 in	120 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
40 x 30 in	96 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 3,840 x 2,886 px, b-w
Tone: Darks 127, lights 240 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 20.25