Joseph Gerrish

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)

Date: 1770
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 32½ × 25 in (82.6 × 63.5 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1957.564. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of the Estate of Adela Barrett

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 2.5 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 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 3.9 %	7¾ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	200 dpi, crisp from a step back
11 × 14 in	trims 2.1 %	10¾ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	142 dpi, soft up close
12 × 16 in	trims 2.5 %	12 × 15½ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	125 dpi, soft up close
16 × 20 in	trims 3.9 %	15½ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	100 dpi, soft up close
18 × 24 in	trims 2.5 %	18 × 23½ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	83 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 2.5 %	30 × 39 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	50 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 2.5 %	36 × 46¾ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	41 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) 465 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 1,016 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 1,660 × 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.