McKay's Sovereign of the Seas, the ship that logged 22 knots - the fastest speed ever recorded under sail alone. No buyer would order so large a clipper, so McKay built her on his own account and let her passages sell themselves.

Maker: after a period lithograph (State Street Trust plate)
Date: 1913 (ship 1852)
Medium of the original: Photomechanical plate after lithograph
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01900

As chosen: 10 x 8 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	10 x 8 in
Outside size	11.6 x 9.6 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	182	Good	Trimmed 2%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
14 x 11 in	133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 12 in	116 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
20 x 16 in	91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
24 x 18 in	77 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
30 x 24 in	60 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
40 x 30 in	46 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	38 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

1,867 x 1,463 px, srgb, Camera RGB Profile

Tone

Darks 104, lights 255 of 255; 10.6% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

35.95

Notes

Colour profile Camera RGB Profile, converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
Pure white on 11% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
Neutrals lean toward green: the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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