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A man with pale white skin sits and a man with light brown skin stands in front of a cave-like, rocky outcropping in this vertical portrait painting.

Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill)

Benjamin West (American, 1738–1820)

Date
1776
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
79½ × 54¼ in (202 × 138 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1940.1.10. See the museum’s record
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 2.4 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) from the floor
Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill): a 24 × 36 in print hung on a plain wall, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper Filling the paper Printed whole Frame Frame with a 2 in mat Frame with a 3 in mat Sharpness
5 × 7 in trims 4.4 % 4¾ × 7 in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 4715 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in trims 2.4 % 20 × 29¼ in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 1156 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in trims 2.4 % 24 × 35 in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 963 dpi, crisp up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.

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