Clipper Ship Romance of the Sea - Sailing Card
unattributed job printer, c. 1855
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 19% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe card of McKay's sharpest hull, lost with all hands in the China Sea. The name was the sales pitch and the epitaph both; she vanished in 1863 without a survivor.
- Maker
- unattributed job printer
- Date
- c. 1855
- 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-01906
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 19% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | 82 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | 16 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,024 x 662 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 94, lights 245 of 255; 0.5% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 55.61
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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