The Bounder
Louis Wain, 1907
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 52 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA single over-dressed tom with an unearned grin, from The Bookman's 1907 Christmas supplement. Wain could build a whole Edwardian social type from one set of whiskers, and here he does.
- Maker
- Louis Wain
- Date
- 1907
- Medium of the original
- Periodical illustration
- Original held by
- The Bookman, Christmas Supplement, December 1907
- Credit
- The Bookman, Christmas Supplement, December 1907 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01826
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 | 52 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | 37 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 12 in | 32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | 26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | 21 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | 17 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 13 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 10 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 521 x 419 px, b-w, GIMP built-in D65 Grayscale with sRGB TRC
- Tone
- Darks 58, lights 255 of 255; 47.1% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 32
- Notes
- Pure white on 47% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
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