Wilson American Ornithology Vintage Illustration Pack, 16 Printable Plates

A themed pack of 16 printable vintage plates from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology, here in Captain Thomas Brown's 1835 Edinburgh folio Illustrations of the American Ornithology of Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte, with hand-coloured plates of North American birds of prey, owls, warblers, herons and waterfowl, 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: California Condor (Plate 1), Golden Eagle and Osprey (Plate 4), Bald Eagle and Kites (Plate 6), Peregrine Falcon (Plate 7), Red-tailed Hawk (Plate 12), Snowy Owl (Plate 14), Short-eared Owl (Plate 18), American Warblers (Plate 38), Woodpeckers (Plate 58), Nighthawk and Whip-poor-will (Plate 64), Night Herons (Plate 91), Snowy and Blue Egrets (Plate 92), Terns (Plate 108), Gulls (Plate 109), Mallard and Ducks (Plate 112), Wood Duck and Eiders (Plate 113). Plate numbers follow the Roman numerals engraved on Brown's 1835 edition.

Print size: Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 5,800–5,900 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about 13 × 19 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 5,800–5,900 px on the long edge (52 MB total), delivered as one zip download.

Source: Hand-coloured engravings from Thomas Brown's 1835 Illustrations of the American Ornithology after Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Biodiversity Heritage Library scans via Wikimedia Commons. JPEG originals used untouched at full native resolution. Public domain: Wilson died in 1813, Bonaparte in 1857 and Brown in 1862, and the plates were published in 1835.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.