The Hudson at the Tappan Zee
Francis Augustus Silva, 1876
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 28% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buySloops ghost across the Hudson's widest reach in amber light, the river more sky than water. Silva, the last strict luminist, kept the creed alive into the Gilded Age — this is its Hudson River testament.
- Maker
- Francis Augustus Silva
- Date
- 1876
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Brooklyn Museum (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Credit
- Brooklyn Museum (via Wikimedia Commons) · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01973
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 28% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 5,840 x 3,343 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 100, lights 213 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 38.53
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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