The Birches of the Catskills

Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820–1910)

Date: ca. 1875
Medium: oil on canvas mounted on paperboard
Size: 13¼ × 7¾ in (33.5 × 19.8 cm)
Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, accession 1967.144. See the museum’s record
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William Katzenbach

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 23½ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

23½ × 40 in portrait print (60 × 102 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
5 × 7 in	trims 17.3 %	4 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	426 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 21.2 %	9½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	184 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 21.2 %	14¼ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	123 dpi, soft up close
20 × 30 in	trims 11.4 %	17¾ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	98 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 11.4 %	21¼ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	82 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 21.2 %	23½ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	74 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) 327 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 492 × 843 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Print file 1,165 × 2,000 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Original file 1,748 × 3,000 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
The museum’s record of this painting Smithsonian American Art Museum

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian 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.