The 1913 poster for Marcel Fabre's Italian serial adaptation, drawn by Albert Robida — the French illustrator and futurist satirist who wrote the source novel four decades earlier. An author illustrating the advertisement for the film of his own fiction is nearly unique in this period. Robida's proto-science-fiction imagery, already a generation old by 1913, was here handed to the medium that would finally be able to stage it. The density — Robida crams incident into every quadrant, an engraver's instinct at a scale meant to be read from across a street. A nineteenth-century imagination catching up with the twentieth-century machine.

Maker: Albert Robida
Date: 1913
Medium of the original: One-sheet poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00817

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 x 25.6 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
8 x 12 in	403	Excellent	Trimmed 5.8%
11 x 14 in	311	Excellent	Trimmed 10%
12 x 16 in	285	Excellent	Trimmed 5.7%
12 x 18 in	268	Excellent	Trimmed 5.8%
16 x 24 in	201	Excellent	Trimmed 5.8%
18 x 24 in	190	Good	Trimmed 5.7%
20 x 30 in	161	Good	Trimmed 5.8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 36 in	134 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	114 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	95 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged