Thurston, Kellar’s Successor — The Whirling Crystal Cage
Strobridge Litho. Co. (Cincinnati & New York)
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 37% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA young Thurston lifts his wand toward a woman in yellow suspended inside a whirling glass cylinder, two red imps spinning the cage from below. The 1908 succession poster: the exact moment Kellar handed over the show and, in print, anointed Thurston his heir.
- Maker
- Strobridge Litho. Co. (Cincinnati & New York)
- Medium of the original
- Colour lithograph poster
- Original held by
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
- Credit
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-02074
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 37% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 36% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 33% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 37% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 33% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 37% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 33% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 33% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 24% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,835 x 5,605 px, srgb, sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 30, lights 184 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 16.06
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