The record behind the sheet in your tube: the file we worked from, what we measured, what we chose and why, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.
Framing this sheet
- 40 × 50 cm sheet
- A 40 × 50 cm frame, no mat. Nearest standard 16 × 20 in. Margins 8.08 cm each side, 7.46 above, 8.58 below.
- 50 × 70 cm sheet
- A 50 × 70 cm frame. Nearest standard 20 × 28 in. Margins 10.29 cm each side, 12.62 above, 14.53 below.
- If you mat it
- Go one frame size up and cut the window three millimetres inside the printed image on every side: 23.19 × 33.30 cm for the small sheet, 28.83 × 42.25 cm for the large one. Off-white or warm white board, acid-free. Do not trim the sheet.
The sheet you have
- Work
- Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860–1920), The Waltz, 1891
- Object
- Etching on laid paper. Plate 31.6 × 21.6 cm (12 7/16 × 8 1/2 in.), sheet 46.9 × 35 cm. Asplund 1920, no. 54, state iii/iii. Inscribed "Zorn" and "1891" in the plate, lower left; signed again "Zorn" in graphite, lower right.
- Held by
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection
- Inventory
- 1943.3.8847
- Rights
- Open Access (CC0) — the museum places the image in the public domain
- File
- National Gallery of Art, at high resolution, taken directly from the institution and not from an aggregator
- Crop
- None. We print the complete file the museum publishes, corner to corner. An earlier version of this file was cropped tighter and cut into the pencil signature; corrected 22.09.2026 to the full, uncropped scan.
The picture Zorn made
A couple turns through a waltz in a lamplit hall; her hand is lifted into his, and behind them a knot of onlookers leans in from a curtained doorway, half in shadow. Zorn built the darkness itself out of line — dense, crossing hatching that turns the room almost black around the dancers, with the paper's own tone left standing in for what light there is. He signed the plate itself, lower left, and signed the sheet again in pencil, lower right — the second signature is what tells a numbered impression from a trial proof.
What we measured at the edges
The museum's own digitized file is already close-cropped — it holds only a narrow, uneven paper margin around the plate, roughly a centimetre on each side, not the full 46.9 × 35 cm sheet. An earlier crop trimmed that margin further still and cut into the pencil signature at lower right. We corrected this on 22.09.2026: the print and every gallery image now use the complete file exactly as the museum publishes it, with no further crop on any side. This is the most of the sheet we can show — no larger source file exists at the Gallery.
What we printed
The museum's file measures 3,474 × 5,061 px, assembled from two unscaled tiles — the API's own scaled endpoints cap at 4,096 px on the long edge, well short of native. Anchored on the catalogued plate width of 21.6 cm, the file comes out to 370 dpi at original size — comfortably past our 300 dpi floor.
40 × 50 cm sheet: image 23.85 × 33.96 cm, 1:1, 370 dpi.
50 × 70 cm sheet: image 29.43 × 42.85 cm, 1.23×, 300 dpi exactly — the largest this file supports without interpolation, so that is where we stopped. Nothing is enlarged in software beyond that line.
What we are allowed to sell
Zorn died in 1920 and the plate was etched and published in 1891, so the work has long been in the public domain in Switzerland, the EU, the United Kingdom and the United States. The National Gallery of Art publishes the image itself under Open Access (CC0) and serves it without a resolution cap through its own IIIF endpoint. Markets checked: Switzerland, the EU, the United Kingdom, the United States. Clear in all four. Nothing on this print uses the Gallery's name as a mark of origin.
Please measure before you buy or cut a mat. These figures describe the file we print from. Sheets are cut by machine to about a millimetre and frames vary between makers. We replace a print that arrives damaged or wrong; we cannot replace a frame or mat that turns out not to fit.
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