The Golden-Winged Woodpecker
Mark Catesby, 1731–1743
$123
Print check at 11 x 14 in: 151 dpi, good. Trimmed 3.6% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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What Catesby called the golden-winged woodpecker is the bird now known as the northern flicker, shown gripping a chestnut oak branch heavy with acorns — Catesby's consistent habit of pairing each animal with a plant from its actual habitat, a compositional choice that functioned as an early, informal argument for ecological relationship decades before the science had a name for it. The flicker's barred back and spotted breast, along with the red crescent marking at its nape, are picked out in fine hand-applied color against the etched line beneath — every plate in the Natural History was colored individually after printing, meaning surviving copies vary somewhat from impression to impression. What to notice: flickers are unusual among woodpeckers for foraging on the ground as often as on trunks, hunting ants and beetles in open soil — a behavioral detail Catesby's static composition can only hint at, but one field naturalists would have already known.
- Maker
- Mark Catesby
- Date
- 1731–1743
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00287
| Picture | 11 x 14 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 12.6 x 15.6 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 208 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.3% |
| 11 x 14 in | 151 | Good | Trimmed 3.6% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 137 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 104 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 45 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,666 x 2,200 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 42, lights 241 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 66.33
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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