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.
Carolina Parakeet
A lost bird, kept alive on the page.
- Work
- John James Audubon, Carolina Parakeet, from The Birds of America, Plate 26
- Artist / creator
- John James Audubon (American, 1785–1851); engraved by Robert Havell
- Origin & date
- The Birds of America, 1828
- Held by
- The Birds of America, Plate 26 (Havell engraving); Bibliothèque nationale de France
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
Audubon crowds seven Carolina parakeets — the only parrot native to the eastern United States — into a single flourishing cluster on a cocklebur plant, their green bodies and yellow-orange heads overlapping in a burst of colour that fills the great page. He arranged them so densely partly as design and partly because the birds were social to a fault, flocking to their own fallen and so making themselves easy to shoot. Within a century they were extinct; the last one died in 1918. What was once a nuisance to farmers survives now almost entirely here, in Audubon’s plate — natural history turned, by circumstance, into elegy. Beauty and loss on one sheet.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from The Birds of America, Plate 26 (Havell engraving); Bibliothèque nationale de France’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.
