Paddy Straw Mushroom

Name: Paddy Straw Mushroom — Specimen
Brand: Madten
SKU: anim-paddy-straw-mushroom-sowerby-specimen
Availability: InStock

Volvariella volvacea

Paddy Straw Mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) — Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms · James Sowerby · 1797.

Size2:3 ratio

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 paddy straw mushroom, tall tan-capped fruiting bodies with salmon gills rising from split white volvas on dark soil, hand-colored on an aged cream page. A kitchen or pantry print at 12×18 in natural wood, it also suits a cottage hallway beside his Belted Slimy Webcap.

Style, size & framing detail

Style: Antique mycology plate
Era: 1797–1815 (Sowerby)
Orientation: Portrait
Palette: ochre, coral, cream, chocolate brown
Mood: earthy, nostalgic
Rooms: kitchen, hallway or entryway
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. The label ground is its own mat: a slim black or natural wood frame, no extra mat.

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 • 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

Paddy Straw Mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) — Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms · James Sowerby · 1797. This is a restored public-domain mushroom plate, set on a soft cream ground with a typeset caption — a self-contained gallery print, 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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