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Fine-art Cardinal-in-snow plate in the Audubon style. The crimson male on a snow-dusted branch, the bird of midwinter.
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Snow on the branch. Red berries below. And the male Cardinalis cardinalis, crimson holding hard against the pale winter ground, not going anywhere.
He does not migrate. This is the fact that makes the cardinal-in-snow image so loaded: every other colour in the garden has left. The warblers, the tanagers, the orioles, all of them gone south months ago. The cardinal is the one bird that stays bright when everything else has emptied and greyed. A male at a January feeder is the most-photographed wild bird in North America. The contrast against winter is the engine of it.
The red he wears now is built from autumn. Cardinals absorb carotenoid pigments from fruit and berries, and those compounds, oxidised and deposited into the feathers during the August moult, are what you see in December. A bird that spent October in dogwood and sumac is a deeper red in January than a bird that spent it on feeder sunflower alone. This plate, the crimson saturated against the white and the bare branch brown, shows the well-fed bird.
The palette in this plate is spare. Pale winter sky. Snow on the branch. The berries and the bird providing all the warmth the composition needs.
In the tradition of Audubon, rendered in the plate-book manner he established, for the wall of the midwinter room.
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 A2) 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.
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