HMS Steam-Powered Battleship Medusa Opening the Shimonoseki Straits

jonkheer Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest (1828–1894)

Date: 1864
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 26¾ × 42¼ in (68 × 107 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-A-2725. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of A.T.J. de Casembroot-van de Poll

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark).

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 4.7 % 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.

24 × 36 in landscape print (61 × 91 cm), centered 55¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 4.7 %	19 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	227 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 36 in	trims 4.7 %	23 × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	189 dpi, crisp from a step back

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 (Public Domain Mark).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 344 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 518 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 2,000 × 1,229 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 7,414 × 4,555 px from Rijksmuseum
The museum’s record of this painting Rijksmuseum

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark). 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.