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Cardinal Grosbeak
Fringilla cardinalis
Today: Northern Cardinal
State bird of Illinois and 6 more states
John James Audubon, plate 159
From The Birds of America
The print
- Technique
- Facsimile giclée
- Sheet
- 26½ × 39¼ in, original size
- Format
- Double Elephant Folio
- Paper
- White etching paper, 270 g/m²
- Ink
- Archival ink
- Edition
- Limited to 250 prints
$350
Limited edition of 250
€315 incl. VAT in the EU
Plus $45 shipping, import duties included. Free from $500 or 3 prints.Including VAT. Free shipping in the Netherlands; elsewhere €26.50, free from €450 or 3 prints.
Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
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- Unframed, rolled in a hard carton tube
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A facsimile of the original sheet
- Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of The Birds of America, Haarlem.
- Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
- Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.
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About this plate
A pair of Northern Cardinals, Audubon’s Cardinal Grosbeak, sit on a flowering branch among clusters of small white flowers and dark berries. The male above is red all over, with a black face and a tall crest; the female below is warm brown, with red in her crest, wings and tail and a red bill. On the great sheet the two birds sit small in the middle, at their real size, with wide paper all round them. The cardinal is the state bird of seven American states and a familiar visitor to gardens across the East.
Cardinal Grosbeak (Fringilla cardinalis) is plate 159 of The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1827–1838). Today the species is known as the Northern Cardinal. This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 26½ × 39¼ in (67 × 100 cm).
About the original
John James Audubon (1785-1851) published The Birds of America between 1827 and 1838: 435 hand-coloured plates, printed on Double Elephant Folio sheets so that every bird could be shown at life size.
On 26 August 1833 Victor Gifford Audubon sold a complete set to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, which still keeps it. Heritage Prints makes its facsimiles from that set, at the size of the original sheet.
- Title
- The Birds of America
- Published
- 1827-1838
- Format
- Double Elephant Folio
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 435 prints
