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Audubon-style fine-art print of a male Painted Bunting on grasses. Archival paper, framed or unframed, from $39.
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.
A blue head. A red breast. A green back that holds the light like something lacquered. The male Passerina ciris clings to a stem of dry grass, all three colours present at once against soft sage seedheads and a warm cream ground.
The French called him nonpareil. Without equal. No other North American songbird carries this palette. The four colour blocks, cobalt, scarlet, lime, buff, meet without blending, which is what makes the bird read, at distance, like a misprint.
He is not easy to reach this plumage. Young males take two full years to develop the adult colours, spending their first breeding season in the female’s yellow-green livery while already singing. The bird in this plate, in full cobalt and scarlet, is a mature male, at least two years old and already a veteran of the territory.
The grasses are not incidental. Grass seeds are the Painted Bunting’s staple. He forages low, hopping through stems and reaching up to strip seed heads, exactly the posture this plate captures. The plate’s setting is the bird’s actual habitat: the scrubby field edge, the dry stem, the open sky behind.
The Painted Bunting has been trapped for the cage-bird trade for centuries. A bird this colourful has never been left alone. The plate holds him still, and free, for the wall.
In the tradition of Audubon, on archival cotton rag.
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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