Portrait of a Man with Gray Hair

Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756–1823)

Date: 1810–20
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 29 × 24¾ in (73.6 × 62.8 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1962.961. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 21 in, the whole painting on 18 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 21 in portrait print (46 × 54 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
8 × 10 in	trims 6.2 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	203 dpi, crisp from a step back
11 × 14 in	trims 7.9 %	11 × 13 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	148 dpi, soft up close
12 × 16 in	trims 12.1 %	12 × 14 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	135 dpi, soft up close
16 × 20 in	trims 6.2 %	16 × 18¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	101 dpi, soft up close
18 × 24 in	trims 12.1 %	18 × 21 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	90 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 12.1 %	30 × 35¼ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	54 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) 457 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 1,034 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 1,631 × 2,000 px from Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s record of this painting Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (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.