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We look slightly down across a sun-drenched plaza with people scattered among ruins, buildings, and around a free-standing column in this vertical landscape painting. The people we can see have light skin.

English Landscape Capriccio with a Column

Canaletto (Italian, 1697–1768)

Date
c. 1754
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
52¾ × 42 in (134 × 106.4 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1964.2.1. See the museum’s record
Credit
Paul Mellon Collection

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

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Print
18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 5.5 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
English Landscape Capriccio with a Column: an 18 × 24 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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
8 × 10 in trims 0.7 % 8 × 10 in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 690 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in trims 1 % 11 × 14 in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 502 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 5.5 % 12 × 15 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 441 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in trims 0.7 % 16 × 20 in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 345 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in trims 5.5 % 18 × 22¾ in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 294 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in trims 5.5 % 30 × 37¾ in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 176 dpi, crisp from a step back
36 × 48 in trims 5.5 % 36 × 45¼ in 36 × 48 in ready-made 40 × 52 in custom 42 × 54 in custom 147 dpi, soft 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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