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Painting of a dark-skinned man seated and wearing a red open-necked tunic. He looks up to the right. His wrists are shackled and a large chain rests at his right, running down the bench he sits upon.

The Captive Slave (Ira Aldridge)

John Philip Simpson (English, 1782–1847)

Date
1827
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
50 × 40 in (127 × 101.5 cm)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, accession 2008.188. See the museum’s record
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Mary Winton Green, Dan and Sara Green Cohan, Howard and Lisa Green and Jonathan and Brenda Green, in memory of David Green

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

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 0.1 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
The Captive Slave (Ira Aldridge): a 16 × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 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 0.1 % 8 × 10 in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 198 dpi, crisp from a step back
11 × 14 in trims 1.7 % 11 × 13¾ in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 142 dpi, soft up close
16 × 20 in trims 0.1 % 16 × 20 in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 99 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 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.

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