Young Tom Morris with the Championship Belt
period photograph, c. 1873
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 17% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyYoung Tom Morris wearing the Open Championship Belt — which he won three straight times, and so kept for good. Four Opens by twenty-one, dead by twenty-four; the game’s first prodigy and its first heartbreak. The belt is the trophy — the claret jug did not yet exist; he is the reason it had to. Some players end an era by winning it too completely.
- Maker
- period photograph
- Date
- c. 1873
- Medium of the original
- Photograph
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00006
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 | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 84 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 16 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 677 x 1,024 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 40, lights 195 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 9.27
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