The Great Triumvirate — Braid, Taylor, and Vardon
Golf Illustrated, 1915
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 48% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyJames Braid, J. H. Taylor, and Harry Vardon — the Great Triumvirate who between them took sixteen Open Championships. The two decades these three ruled turned the professional golfer from servant into champion. Three plain men in tweed — the era’s giants dressed like the caddies they had been. A game finds its measure in the ones who share the top.
- Maker
- Golf Illustrated
- Date
- 1915
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- Golf Illustrated & Outdoor America, Vol. 3
- Credit
- Golf Illustrated & Outdoor America, Vol. 3
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00007
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 48% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 38% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 47% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 45% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 38% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 48% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 38% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 45% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 38% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 48% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 38% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 45% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 45% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 38% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,240 x 515 px, srgb, L767
- Tone
- Darks 44, lights 222 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.3% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 4.34
- Notes
- Colour profile L767, converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
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