Catesby Birds of Carolina Vintage Illustration Pack 5, 16 Printable Plates

A themed pack of 16 printable vintage plates from Mark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (volume 1, London, 1731), the first great illustrated book of American birds, each shown with the plants they live among, made for junk journals, scrapbooking, card making, collage, decoupage and paper crafts. Print them at home, cut them out and layer them into your projects. The files are full-size original scans, so they are also big enough to frame as wall art.

Plates included: Red-legged Thrush (Plate 30), Little Thrush (Plate 31), Horned Lark (Plate 32), Eastern Meadowlark (Plate 33), Eastern Towhee (Plate 34), Purple Finch (Plate 41), Western Spindalis (Plate 42), Blackcap Fly-catcher (Plate 53), Hooded Warbler (Plate 60), Killdeer (Plate 71), Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Plate 79), Glossy Ibis (Plate 83), Oyster Catcher (Plate 85), Brown Booby (Plate 87), Bahama Duck (Plate 93), Blue-Wing Teal (Plate 99).

Print size: Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 6,400–6,600 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about 13 × 21 in at 300 dpi (based on the smallest plate; most go larger), and down to A4, US Letter or A5 with no loss. The shapes vary slightly because they're original book pages.

Files: 16 high-resolution JPGs, about 6,400–6,600 px on the long edge (37 MB total), delivered as one zip download.

Source: Hand-coloured etchings by Mark Catesby from volume 1 of The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library page scans, via Wikimedia Commons. Each file is the full book page as scanned. Public domain: Catesby died in 1749 and the volume was published in 1731, so it has been out of copyright worldwide for centuries.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.