'Charlie' Morton's Mascot
Louis Wain, 1901
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 16% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe resident Persian of London's Palace Theatre, drawn for The Sketch in 1901. A portrait commission of an actual working theatre cat, by the man who invented the celebrity cat.
- Maker
- Louis Wain
- Date
- 1901
- Medium of the original
- Periodical illustration
- Original held by
- The Sketch, 6 November 1901
- Credit
- The Sketch, 6 November 1901 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01815
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 16% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 578 x 550 px, b-w, GIMP built-in D65 Grayscale with sRGB TRC
- Tone
- Darks 40, lights 255 of 255; 49.9% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 11.94
- Notes
- Pure white on 50% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
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