Original Scale

The scale of a work is part of the experience of seeing it.

Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. Palatine Editions takes a different approach.

For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.

This is what we mean by Original Scale.

Scale changes the encounter. A small, intimate work can draw you closer. A larger work has a different physical presence. Change the size substantially and the image may remain recognisable, but the relationship between viewer and artwork changes with it.

We would not crop a work to make it fit a frame, alter its colours to suit a room, or distort its proportions for convenience. We believe its scale deserves the same respect.

Digital printing works in whole pixels, so translating recorded physical dimensions into a production file can involve negligible technical rounding. We do not deliberately enlarge or reduce a work to make it fit a standard product size. If a work cannot be presented convincingly at Original Scale within our framing system, we do not offer it.

One work. One scale. As close as we can bring you to the original.