The Peutinger Table
after a late-Roman original, c. 1200 copy
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 90% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyImagine a subway map of the entire Roman Empire — every road, every rest-stop, every distance — stretched onto a scroll almost seven metres long and barely a foot high. The Peutinger Table is a medieval copy of exactly that: a late-Roman route diagram, deliberately squashed and distorted so that what matters is not shape but connection. Rome sits enthroned at its heart, roads radiating out to Britain, India, and the edge of the world. The ancient world's information design, twelve centuries ahead of its time.
- Maker
- after a late-Roman original
- Date
- c. 1200 copy
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Austrian National Library, Vienna
- Credit
- Austrian National Library, Vienna
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00323
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 90% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 89% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 90% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 90% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 89% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 90% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 89% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 90% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 89% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 90% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 89% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 90% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 90% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 89% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 26,381 x 2,014 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)
- Tone
- Darks 56, lights 213 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 61.58
- Notes
- Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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