William P. Chappel, 1870 - Fighting a Fire - fine art print

The product

Fighting a Fire is a masterpiece created by the painter William P. Chappel in 1870. The 150 year old original version of the artpiece was made with the size: 6 x 9 1/8 in (15,2 x 23,2 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on slate paper. Nowadays, the artpiece is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection in New York City, New York, United States of America. This masterpiece, which is part of the public domain is supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954. The creditline of the artwork is: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954. In addition to that, the alignment is landscape with a side ratio of 3 : 2, which implies that the length is 50% longer than the width.

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In the product dropdown menu you can select a material and a size of your choice. Hence, we allow you to choose among the following options:

• Poster print (canvas material): A poster print is a printed canvas paper with a fine surface texture. A poster print is suited for framing the art copy in a special frame. Please note, that depending on the absolute size of the poster print we add a white margin of approximately 2 - 6cm round about the work of art, which facilitates the framing with your custom frame.
• The canvas print: A printed canvas, which shall not be confused with a canvas painting, is an image printed onto cotton canvas. The advantage of canvas prints is that they are relatively low in weight, meaning that it is quite simple to hang up the Canvas print without any wall-mounts. Because of thata canvas print is suited for any kind of wall.
• Aluminium dibond: An Aluminium Dibond print is a print material with a true depth effect. The white and bright parts of the artwork shimmer with a silk gloss but without the glow.
• Acrylic glass print (with real glass coating): A glossy print on acrylic glass, which is often described as a print on plexiglass, makes the original work of art into amazing décor. Further, it makes a viable alternative option to dibond and canvas prints. The major upside of a plexiglass fine art print is that sharp contrasts plus smaller painting details become more visible because of the very subtle tonal gradation.

Important note: We try our utmost in order to describe our products as exact as it is possible and to illustrate them visually in our shop. Please keep in mind that the tone of the print products and the imprint might differ slightly from the presentation on your device's screen. Depending on your settings of your screen and the condition of the surface, color pigments may not be printed one hundret percent realistically. Given that the art prints are processed and printed by hand, there might as well be slight deviations in the exact position and the size of the motif.

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Original artwork specifications by the museum (© - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

Between 1800 and 1810, the number of firefighters across the city expanded from 600 to 1,005—a response to the dramatic growth in population and rapid urban development. Most homes and businesses were still made of wood; the bulky manual pump engines had to be dragged to fires by hand; and local water supplies were consistently insufficient. At times the only option left to firefighters and neighbors was to help remove the homeowner’s property, and prevent thieves from stealing it. Before more advanced firefighting technologies emerged in the 1820s, all residents were required by law to own a leather fire bucket for use in water lines, as depicted here.