
Columbia and Shamrock
F. A. Walter, 1899
$270
Print check at 18 x 24 in: 232 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 7% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A Brooklyn print shop's answer to Cup fever - Lipton's first Shamrock against Herreshoff's Columbia. Sir Thomas Lipton turned a grudge match back into a festival, and the printers followed.
- Maker
- F. A. Walter
- Date
- 1899
- Medium of the original
- Chromolithograph
- Original held by
- Library of Congress
- Credit
- Library of Congress · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01945
| Picture | 18 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 19.6 x 25.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
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 | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 557 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.8% |
| 11 x 14 in | 398 | Excellent | Trimmed 2.6% |
| 12 x 16 in | 348 | Excellent | Trimmed 7% |
| 16 x 20 in | 278 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.8% |
| 18 x 24 in | 232 | Excellent | Trimmed 7% |
| 24 x 30 in | 185 | Good | Trimmed 0.8% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 139 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 116 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 4,499 x 5,579 px, srgb, c2
- Tone
- Darks 73, lights 228 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 17.63
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
Shipping for this piece to a US address is $25.90, the print room’s own rate, charged per piece. Checkout shows the total before you pay.
Every piece is printed after you order it, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ships from there. For now we ship to US addresses only.
A piece that arrives damaged, misprinted or in the wrong size is replaced at our cost. The details: shipping and returns and replacements.
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