Love Letters of a Cat
Louis Wain, 1901
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 11% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA cat at its correspondence, hopelessly in love, from The Sketch of March 1901. Wain published this the spring England was mad for romantic serials, and the cats kept pace.
- Maker
- Louis Wain
- Date
- 1901
- Medium of the original
- Periodical illustration
- Original held by
- The Sketch, 27 March 1901
- Credit
- The Sketch, 27 March 1901 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01822
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 11% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 862 x 771 px, srgb, GIMP built-in sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 24, lights 255 of 255; 14.9% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 35.06
- Notes
- Transparent areas flattened onto white
- Pure white on 15% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
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