Hunting Picture
Louis Wain, 1901
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 107 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyCats in hunting pinks ride to hounds across a Sketch page from September 1901. The landed gentry rendered as tabbies — Wain's gentlest form of class commentary.
- Maker
- Louis Wain
- Date
- 1901
- Medium of the original
- Periodical illustration
- Original held by
- The Sketch, 18 September 1901
- Credit
- The Sketch, 18 September 1901 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01821
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 | 107 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | 78 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 35 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 23 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 862 x 1,130 px, srgb, GIMP built-in sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 170, lights 255 of 255; 41.8% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 9.09
- Notes
- Pure white on 42% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
- Narrow tonal range (30 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
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