Dead Mans Fingers

Name: Dead Mans Fingers
Brand: Madten
SKU: anim-dead-mans-fingers-sowerby
Availability: InStock

Xylaria polymorpha

Dead Mans Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) — Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms · James Sowerby · 1797.

MaterialHeavyweight matte paper

Size2:3 ratio

BorderPlate to the edge

Frame

$39Unframed print · made to order

📦 Free shipping on every order, arriving in 4–9 business days with production included. Express ($14.90) at checkout arrives in 4–6 business days.

Complete the setHangs well with these two

3 × $39 at 12 × 18 in, unframed = $117 → $105.30 as a set · 10% included · free shipping

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Giclée-printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper

Free shipping worldwide · arrives in 4–9 business days

Arrives perfect or we reprint it — free

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Where it works

Sowerby's dead man's fingers, a clump of black finger-shaped fungi rising from a pale stump, with white-tipped young ones and a section, on an aged cream page. Dark and strange, it suits a study, a hallway or a bathroom at 12×18 in a black frame, with his Scarlet Caterpillarclub.

Style, size & framing detail

Style: Antique mycology plate
Era: 19th century
Orientation: Portrait
Palette: black, cream, sepia
Mood: moody, minimal
Rooms: bathroom, hallway or entryway, study or library, kitchen
Good gift for: plant lovers, cooks

Size. We'd hang this one at 12×18. Prints at 12×18 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid.

Framing. Choose Full-bleed for the plate edge to edge in a slim black or natural wood frame, or the White-mat border for a classic gallery look. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.

Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other botanical prints (10% off three or more).

Details & materials

• Restored in-house from the original plate — cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Also available as gallery-wrapped canvas — ready to hang, no frame needed • Sizes: 12×18 in; every size also available framed • Framed option: wood frame in black or natural wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

Shipping & returns

Printed after you order at the facility nearest you, then shipped. Standard delivery is free and takes 4–9 business days from order to door in the US, UK and EU (up to 10 elsewhere); Express takes 4–6 business days. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

About this design

Dead Mans Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) — Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms · James Sowerby · 1797. This is a restored public-domain mushroom plate, printed edge-to-edge so the plate fills the sheet, printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Every size is offered unframed or framed in black or natural wood. Part of the Madten Mushroom Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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The Madten promise

Gallery-grade archival giclée. Rich pigment inks on heavyweight fine-art paper (or gallery-wrapped canvas) — built to last, not a poster-shop print.

Arrives perfect or we reprint it — free. Every piece is made to order; if it shows up damaged or flawed we remake it, no return needed.

Free worldwide shipping. Made & shipped from the facility nearest you — most orders arrive in 4–9 business days.

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