Smooth-billed Ani & Lady's Slipper
Smooth-billed Ani & Lady's Slipper (Crotophaga ani) — The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, Appendix (Pl. 3) · Mark Catesby · 1747.
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This print
Where it works
Catesby's smooth-billed ani, glossy blue-black with a heavy keeled bill and a long tail, perches on the stem of a lady's slipper orchid with a pink pouch, on aged cream. Graphic and moody for a study or an entry at 18×24 in a black frame, with his Common Grackle.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Antique natural-history plate
- Era
- 19th century
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- black, navy, blush pink, sage
- Mood
- graphic, moody
- Rooms
- study or library, nursery, kids room
- Good gift for
- bird lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 18×24. Prints at 12×16, 18×24 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 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).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
About this design
The Madten promise
The cream specimen edition
The same plate set on a soft cream ground with a typeset specimen label — a gallery-ready print.
