Gould Birds of Great Britain Vintage Illustration Pack, 16 Printable Plates

A themed pack of 16 printable vintage plates from John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain (London, 1862–1873), the grand Victorian bird book; this pack gathers its eagles, falcons, hawks, kites and owls, 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: Golden Eagle, White-tailed Eagle, Osprey, Goshawk, Sparrowhawk, Rough-legged Buzzard, Red Kite, Hen Harrier, Greenland Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Hobby, Merlin, Red-footed Falcon, Kestrel, Snowy Owl, Short-eared Owl. The original plates are unnumbered and carry Gould's Latin names.

Print size: Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 6,000–6,200 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about 11 × 20 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 6,000–6,200 px on the long edge (115 MB total), delivered as one zip download.

Source: Hand-coloured lithographs by John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter from The Birds of Great Britain, from the full-resolution TIFF master scans digitised by Special Collections & Archives, J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans (Louisiana Digital Library), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain: Gould died in 1881 and Richter in 1902, and the plates were published 1862–1873.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.