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We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a railing overlooking a boat-clogged waterway in this horizontal painting.

Wapping

James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)

Date
1860-1864
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
28¼ × 40 in (72 × 101.8 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1982.76.8. See the museum’s record
Credit
John Hay Whitney Collection

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

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Print
36 × 48 in, filling the paper (trims 5.7 % of the picture)
Center
61¼ in (156 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.
Wapping: a 36 × 48 in print hung above a sofa, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
36 × 48 in landscape print (91 × 122 cm), centered 61¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. 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 1 % 5 × 7 in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 3680 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 5.7 % 11¼ × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 1533 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in trims 5.7 % 17 × 24 in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 1022 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in trims 5.7 % 28¼ × 40 in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 613 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in trims 5.7 % 34 × 48 in 36 × 48 in ready-made 40 × 52 in custom 42 × 54 in custom 511 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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