Fitz Henry Lane Harbor of Boston, with the City in the Distance, c. 1846–47
Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor
Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804–1865)
- Date
- 1862
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 38 × 60 in (96.5 × 152.4 cm)
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 1978.203. See the museum’s record
- Credit
- Purchase, Rogers and Fletcher Funds, Erving and Joyce Wolf Fund, Raymond J. Horowitz Gift, Bequest of Richard De Wolfe Brixey, by exchange, and John Osgood and Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Memorial Fund, 1978
Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).
Palette
- #BA9C74, 33 % of the picture, closest to Taupe walls
- #DCB470, 29 % of the picture, closest to Mustard walls
- #311A0E, 13 % of the picture, closest to Chocolate walls
- #7D5227, 13 % of the picture, closest to Chocolate walls
- #8F8481, 12 % of the picture, closest to Taupe walls
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Hang it
Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.
- 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 5 % of the picture)
- Center
- 55¼ in (140 cm) from the floor
- Above the sofa
- 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
- Ideal width
- 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
- Why this height
- Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.
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Print it
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 5 % | 19 × 30 in | 20 × 30 in ready-made | 24 × 34 in custom | 26 × 36 in custom | 114 dpi, soft up close |
| 24 × 36 in | trims 5 % | 22¾ × 36 in | 24 × 36 in ready-made | 28 × 40 in custom | 30 × 42 in custom | 95 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.
Download
Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).
- Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 335 px from Room Paintings
- Web image 600 × 359 px from The Met
- Print and original file 3,811 × 2,281 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.
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John Frederick Kensett Lake George, 1869
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