A woman with pale, smooth skin stands wearing a loosely draped, champagne-peach dress in this vertical portrait painting. Her body faces us but she turns her head to look down and off to our right with brown eyes.

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788)

Date
1783
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
92¾ × 57¾ in (235.6 × 146.5 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1937.1.93. See the museum’s record
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection

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

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Print
25 × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center
58 in (147 cm) from the floor
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire: a 25 × 40 in print hung on a plain wall, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
25 × 40 in portrait print (63 × 102 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.

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.