Inconsistent image sizing with Grid and Row?

Can anyone explain why Row and Grid don't size the image correctly and consistently to 300 as specified in ImageResize?

image = ImageResize[Import["ExampleData/lena.tif"], 300];
image
Row[{image}]
Grid[{{image}}]
Row[{"abcd", image}]

Grid[{{"abcd", image}}]

GraphicsGrid doesn't seem to help either.

Any workarounds to do so?

Answer

Another approach (from this answer) is to re-set the value of the option ImageSizeMultipliers to {1.,1.} :

image = ImageResize[Import["ExampleData/lena.tif"], 250];
image2 = ImageResize[ExampleData[{"TestImage", "Mandrill"}], 150];

With the default settings

image
image2
Grid[{{"abcd", image, image2}}]

gives

After evaluating

SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], ImageSizeMultipliers -> {1., 1.}]

anywhere in the notebook, we get

You can reset the option value to its default using:

SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], ImageSizeMultipliers -> {.5, .25}]

An alternative, more cumbersome, approach is to wrap each object with Style[#, ImageSizeMultipliers->{1.,1.}:

dontResizeF = Style[#, ImageSizeMultipliers -> {1., 1.}] &;

image
image2
Grid[{{"abcd", dontResizeF@image, dontResizeF@image2}}]