The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
The Lament for Icarus
The wings still on him, and the sun that did it overhead.
- Work
- Herbert James Draper, The Lament for Icarus
- Artist / creator
- Herbert James Draper (British, 1863–1920)
- Origin & date
- Britain, 1898
- Held by
- Tate Britain, London
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 12x16 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Icarus has fallen, and three sea nymphs have gathered his body onto a rock — but Draper leaves the enormous bronze-gold wings attached, spread beneath him like a broken altarpiece, so the instrument of the pride and the ruin is still in the picture. The nymphs mourn a boy they never knew. Above, the sky burns out into the white heat that melted the wax. Draper won a Royal Academy gold medal and the painting entered the national collection at once. Ambition, brilliance, and the fall, arranged with real tenderness — the myth everyone recognises the moment they see it.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Tate Britain, London’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
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