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A light-skinned woman in a long, shiny white dress sits at a desk reading a book. The book is propped on a large red pillow. Her head is propped in her hand.

Isabella Wolff

Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769–1830)

Date
1803–15
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
50½ × 40¼ in (128.2 × 102.4 cm)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1922.4461. See the museum’s record
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection

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
Isabella Wolff: 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 197 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 98 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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