For now, that format is 8"x10", as it would have been the preferred image size when photography first employed Kallitypes, Albumen, Salted Paper and Gum Bichromate processes as Art. By the time Alfred Stieglitz and the Secessionists movement, photography had become an acceptable form of collectable Art. That took many years and a great deal of innovation and invention. Technology has once again altered the calculus of print making. An example being that when I have mastered the 8x10 printing in Platinum/Palladium, and gum dichromate, respectively. I will be scaling the print size up to 11"x14", and perhaps thereafter, to 16"x20". That is the advantage of today's printing capacity for negatives on digital images.
An example of a combination of gum dichromate color layers over a salted silver print. An example of a four color (CYMK) printing method, subtractive color theory used in watercolors. A gum print is basically a photographic watercolor. This print was digitally photographed. The texture, or 'tooth' of the paper can be seen, one of the things I liked that about hand coated printing at the time. At that time, it was a way of creating texture and detail into a gum print, which would otherwise look more like patches of color, as in a silhouette of an image. This print, as other gums I printed at the time were all done with paper negatives.
The only Gum Dichromate over Salted Silver print I have left.
1986 ~ 5"x7" Unique ~ "The Lighthouse" ~ Printed on Canson white archival paper
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