Audubon crowds seven Carolina parakeets — the only parrot native to the eastern United States — into a single flourishing cluster on a cocklebur plant, their green bodies and yellow-orange heads overlapping in a burst of colour that fills the great page. He arranged them so densely partly as design and partly because the birds were social to a fault, flocking to their own fallen and so making themselves easy to shoot. Within a century they were extinct; the last one died in 1918. What was once a nuisance to farmers survives now almost entirely here, in Audubon’s plate — natural history turned, by circumstance, into elegy. Beauty and loss on one sheet.

Maker: John James Audubon; engraved by Robert Havell (1785 to 1851)
Date: 1828
Medium of the original: Engraving
Original held by: The Birds of America, Plate 26 (Havell engraving); Bibliothèque nationale de France
Credit: The Birds of America, Plate 26 (Havell engraving); Bibliothèque nationale de France · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00665

As chosen: 16 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	16 x 24 in
Outside size	17.6 x 25.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	993	Excellent	Trimmed 1%
12 x 18 in	662	Excellent	Trimmed 1%
16 x 24 in	496	Excellent	Trimmed 1%
20 x 30 in	397	Excellent	Trimmed 1%
24 x 36 in	331	Excellent	Trimmed 1%
40 x 60 in	198	Good	Trimmed 1%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

8,030 x 11,922 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)

Tone

Darks 83, lights 238 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

45.23

Notes

Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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