Garden View, Brooklyn

Fidelia Bridges (American, 1834–1923)

Date: ca. 1867
Medium: Watercolor and gouache, with traces of graphite underdrawing, on tan hot-pressed wove paper
Size: 8 × 5 in (20.3 × 13 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 2021.161.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Max and Pamela Berry, 2021

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 4 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 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
20 × 30 in	trims 4 %	19¼ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	131 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 4 %	23 × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	109 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).

Thumbnail (WebP) 368 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 410 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 2,628 × 4,000 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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.