What is the largest sharp print size for The Earth Spider Conjures Up Demons?

At 300 dpi, this 1,542 × 728 px file prints up to 5.1 × 2.4 in with gallery-sharp detail. At 150 dpi the file reaches 10.3 × 4.9 in, which is poster-sharp quality.

Which standard frame sizes give gallery-sharp prints of The Earth Spider Conjures Up Demons?

The best frame sizes for this file are , printing at 150–299 dpi (poster- to sharp-quality).

Does printing The Earth Spider Conjures Up Demons require cropping the image?

Standard frame aspect ratios may not match this artwork exactly; depending on the size chosen, up to 41% of the image could be cropped. Most print-on-demand services let you adjust the crop position or add a white mat border instead.

The Earth Spider Conjures Up Demons — Utagawa Kuniyoshi | Free high-res download

The Earth Spider Conjures Up Demons

Utagawa Kuniyoshi · 1843 · British Museum, London

Public domain · $0.001,542 × 728 px · 1.1 MP

Prints gallery-sharp up to5.1 × 2.4 inat 300 dpi, uncropped · poster-sharp to 10.3 × 4.9 in at 150 dpi

The download is the original scan on Wikimedia Commons. Big file — give it a minute.

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How big can you print it?

Standard frame sizes, turned to match the artwork. "Crops" is how much of the picture you lose filling that frame edge to edge — or keep it all and let a mat take up the difference.

Frame	Effective dpi	Verdict	Crops
10 × 8 in	91	Too soft	41%
14 × 11 in	66	Too soft	40%
16 × 12 in	60	Too soft	37%
20 × 16 in	45	Too soft	41%
24 × 18 in	40	Too soft	37%
36 × 24 in	30	Too soft	29%
40 × 30 in	24	Too soft	37%

Will it fit over your couch? Put this one on your wall, to scale — crop or mat, frame size, hang height and the order.

The ticket

The Earth Spider Conjures Up Demons is a woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861), dated 1843. Woodblock print (triptych). Held by British Museum, London; the free scan comes from Wikimedia Commons.

A sick warlord lies in bed in the corner while a crowd of demons and monsters, drawn with a lot of imagination, parade around the room. Kuniyoshi made it in 1843, in the middle of a crackdown on luxury and gossip, and the public widely read it as a coded satire of the shogunate. Whether that was intended is still debated. It is one of the great yokai prints and a favourite for a gaming room.

The work is in the public domain, which means no permission, no fee and no credit line required. That file is 1,542 × 728 pixels — 1.1 megapixels — good for a gallery-sharp print up to 5.1 × 2.4 in. Woodblock prints were made to be printed again and again — a reproduction is in keeping with the whole point of the thing. Keep the paper tone warm. A printer that bleaches the ground to white-white flattens it into clip art.