Firemen's Washing Day

William P. Chappel (American, 1801–1878)

Date: 1870s
Medium: Oil on slate paper
Size: 6 × 9¼ in (15.2 × 23.2 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 54.90.496. See the museum’s record
Credit: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954

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

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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 1.7 % of the picture)
Center: 51¼ in (130 cm) from the floor
Above the console table: 8 in (20 cm) from the console table to the frame
Ideal width: 36 to 41 in over a 54 in console table
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the console table, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

24 × 36 in landscape print (61 × 91 cm), centered 51¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. 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 1.7 %	19¾ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	122 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 1.7 %	23½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	101 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) 560 × 380 px from Room Paintings
Web image 599 × 406 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,671 × 2,490 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.