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An Adelie Penguin on the ice, the white eye-ring and blunt black head drawn in fine detail against a cream ground.
Each print is made to order. You can cancel within 12 hours of ordering, after which it goes into production and cannot be cancelled. Secure checkout via Stripe.
Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsm.
The Adelie is the penguin a child draws when you say the word. Black head, white front, an upright little figure on the ice, the most southerly bird on earth. It nests further south than anything else with feathers, on the bare Antarctic coast, and it builds with the only material it has: stones. A male carries pebbles one at a time to the female, and a good clean stone is currency in a colony where the ground floods when the snow melts.
The field mark is the eye. There is no orange here, no yellow plume, none of the colour the larger penguins carry. Just a clean white ring around a dark eye in an otherwise solid black head, which gives the bird its faintly startled, faintly comic expression. Named after Adelie Land, itself named by a French explorer for his wife, the bird has been a fixture of the Antarctic imagination since.
On the page the appeal is restraint. The whole image is black, white and the cold blue-grey of ice, with the cream ground doing the warming. It is the most graphic bird in the collection, drawn with the same patient attention a warbler or a finch is given. A penguin holds a room. This one does it on two colours.
Available in three sizes on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsm, an archival cotton rag with a soft matte surface. Printed by Prodigi with pigment inks rated 100+ years under display conditions. Framed prints are glazed, no mat, in black, white or natural.
Each print is made to order through our global print partner and shipped from the production lab nearest you - allow a few days for printing plus local tracked delivery.
Each print is made to order. You can change or cancel it within 12 hours of ordering. After that it goes into production and can no longer be cancelled, though we will always put right anything that arrives damaged.
The available sizes (up to 24x30 inches) and any framed finishes are shown above. Choose yours before checkout.
Yes - each print is sized to fit standard frames. Framed finishes are offered on many prints.
Because each print is made to order, contact us within 14 days of delivery and we will put it right.
