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.
American Flamingo
Audubon’s flamingo, bowed to fit the page.
- Work
- John James Audubon, The Birds of America, Plate 431
- Artist / creator
- John James Audubon (American, 1785–1851)
- Origin & date
- The Birds of America, 1838
- Held by
- The Birds of America (double elephant folio)
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 30x40 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
A flamingo curves its whole flushed body downward, neck sweeping to the water — a pose Audubon chose partly from life and partly from necessity, folding the tall bird to fit the enormous “double elephant” page on which he was determined to print every American bird life-size. The Birds of America (1827–1838) is one of the most magnificent books ever made, and its flamingo is the showstopper: a study in that impossible pink, at once rigorous natural history and pure design. Ornithology as high art.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from The Birds of America (double elephant folio)’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.
