Great Blue Heron (Head) & Insects
Great Blue Heron (Head) & Insects (Ardea herodias) — The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, Appendix (Pl. 10) · Mark Catesby · 1747.
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Where it works
Catesby's heron head, a brown neck with a shaggy grey crest and a long yellow dagger bill, sits among beetles, roaches, a moth and a small spotted lizard, on aged cream. A cabinet-of-curiosities piece for a study at 16×24 in a black frame, with Audubon's Great Blue Heron.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Antique natural-history plate
- Era
- 19th century
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- chocolate brown, ochre, grey, cream
- Mood
- scholarly, graphic
- Rooms
- study or library, nursery, kids room
- Good gift for
- bird lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. A slim black or dark wood frame right to the plate edge; the plate's own margin frames the subject.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other bird prints (10% off three or more).
