The Sectarians
Unknown, 1930
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 59% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA tall 1930 poster for a Soviet anti-religious drama. The anti-sectarian campaign wanted a poster as vertical and severe as a sermon undone. An unusually narrow, towering format drives the eye straight up the sheet. Belief tried by the collective
- Maker
- Unknown
- Date
- 1930
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00694
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 |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 59% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 59% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 57% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 59% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 57% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 59% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 57% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 57% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,287 x 3,949 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 27, lights 217 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0.8% vivid
- Sharpness
- 9.02
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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