Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788)

Date: 1787
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 58 × 47¼ in (147.6 × 120.3 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 50.145.17. See the museum’s record
Credit: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 1.8 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

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 1.8 %	8 × 9¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	385 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 3.6 %	11 × 13½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	275 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 1.8 %	16 × 19½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	192 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 (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 458 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 510 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,152 × 3,857 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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.