{"product_id":"george-edwards-uncommon-birds-vintage-illustration-pack-16-printable-plates","title":"George Edwards Uncommon Birds Vintage Illustration Pack, 16 Printable Plates","description":"\u003cp\u003eA themed pack of \u003cstrong\u003e16 printable vintage plates\u003c\/strong\u003e from George Edwards's \u003cem\u003eA Natural History of Uncommon Birds\u003c\/em\u003e (London, 1743–1764), the great eighteenth-century bird book that introduced scores of American, Asian and African species to European readers; this pack gathers Edwards's own hand-coloured etchings together with contemporary German copies after his plates and two Cleveland Museum watercolour studies, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlates included:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brown Bird with Butterfly, American Bittern (Fedoa Americana), Brown Speckled Bird, Red and Black Bird, Red-headed Finch of Surinam, Guillemot and Puffin, Bird of Paradise, Long-tailed Birds, Blue-throated Waterfowl, Green and Orange Birds, Bird Study (Cleveland), Bird Study II (Cleveland), Brazilian Magpie (after Edwards), Whooping Crane (after Edwards), White Cockatoo (after Edwards), Mexican Green Parrot (after Edwards).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrint size:\u003c\/strong\u003e Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 4,000–6,500 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about \u003cstrong\u003e9 × 13 in\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFiles:\u003c\/strong\u003e 16 high-resolution JPGs, about 4,000–6,500 px on the long edge (140 MB total), delivered as one zip download.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSource:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hand-coloured etchings by George Edwards from \u003cem\u003eA Natural History of Uncommon Birds\u003c\/em\u003e, National Gallery of Art open-access scans; plus Johann Michael Seligmann and Johann Sebastian Leitner coloured copies after Edwards (NGA); and two bird-study watercolours from the Cleveland Museum of Art (CC0), all via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain: Edwards died in 1773, Seligmann in 1762 and Leitner in the late 1700s, and the plates were published mid-eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital file only. No physical item will be shipped.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maker Pixel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55736172675415,"sku":"VIP71V4C","price":3.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/9057\/2119\/files\/VIP71V4C_01_cover.jpg?v=1793895879","url":"https:\/\/makerpixel.com\/products\/george-edwards-uncommon-birds-vintage-illustration-pack-16-printable-plates","provider":"Maker Pixel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}