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Lewin Birds of New South Wales Vintage Illustration Pack, 16 Printable Plates

Name: Lewin Birds of New South Wales Vintage Illustration Pack, 16 Printable Plates
Brand: Maker Pixel
SKU: VIPQ6BF7
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A themed pack of 16 printable vintage plates from John William Lewin's Birds of New South Wales with their Natural History (Sydney, 1813), the first illustrated book printed in Australia, with hand-coloured etchings of Australian songbirds, honeyeaters and the azure kingfisher, 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: Black Crown Thrush, Blue Face Honeysucker, Common Grossbeak, Crested Shrike, Crested Thrush, King Honeysucker, Mountain Bee Eater, Orange Breast Thrush, Orange Rumpt Flycatcher, Red Breast Warbler, Reed Warbler, Rock Warbler, Scarlet & Black Warbler, Spotted Grossbeak, Three-toe Kingfisher, Variegated Warbler. Plate titles follow Lewin's original English names from the 1813 Sydney edition.

Print size: Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 4,600–4,680 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about 11 × 15 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 these are original single-sheet etched plates.

Files: 16 high-resolution JPGs, about 4,600–4,680 px on the long edge (63 MB total), delivered as one zip download.

Source: Hand-coloured etchings by John William Lewin from the 1813 Sydney edition of Birds of New South Wales with their Natural History, Google Art Project / museum scans via Wikimedia Commons. JPEG originals used untouched at full native resolution. Public domain: Lewin died in 1819 and the plates were published in 1813.

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Lewin Birds of New South Wales Vintage Illustration Pack, 16 Printable Plates