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The hen, slightly lower in the foreground, shows a quieter palette of warm browns and buff, her form grounding the scene against a setting of \u003cstrong\u003efallen autumn leaves, rocky terrain, and trailing vine growth\u003c\/strong\u003e. Young poults scatter in the lower register, darting through the leaf litter. The background opens into a hazy blue-grey mountain vista that gives the scene both air and scale. Light falls with studied naturalism, modeling each feather group individually while the overall composition retains the dramatic silhouette characteristic of Audubon's large-format plates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plate is among the most celebrated images in Audubon's monumental \u003cem\u003eThe Birds of America\u003c\/em\u003e, issued in parts between 1827 and 1838 as a series of hand-colored aquatint engravings produced in Edinburgh and London with engraver Robert Havell Jr. The wild turkey was Audubon's deliberate opening statement: plate number one in the elephant folio, chosen not merely for its native American grandeur but because Audubon understood the bird as a symbol of the continent's wild abundance at a moment when that abundance was already under pressure from settlement. Audubon had observed and drawn wild turkeys in Kentucky and the Ohio Valley through the early 1820s, capturing the species at life size, a decision that drove the folio's famous double-elephant format. Benjamin Franklin had famously argued for the turkey over the bald eagle as the national bird, and Audubon's placement of this plate first carries that cultural weight deliberately. The original watercolor studies were executed in \u003cem\u003egouache and graphite on paper\u003c\/em\u003e, and the finished aquatints, hand-colored by teams of colorists, became the standard of \u003cem\u003enatural history illustration\u003c\/em\u003e for the following century. Subscribers to the original edition included kings, scientific academies, and the major natural history collections of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanvas Classics reproduces this plate from high-resolution museum scans of original Havell-edition impressions, recovering the \u003cstrong\u003efull tonal range from the deep shadow pools beneath the cock's breast feathers to the pale buff highlights along the hen's supercilium\u003c\/strong\u003e and the delicate warm ochre of the poults in the leaf litter. Mass-produced poster prints collapse the iridescent bronze-to-green transitions across the cock's wing coverts into a single flat tone; our archival giclee process on museum-grade cotton canvas preserves each feather group as a distinct tonal event, rendering the \u003cstrong\u003estippled texture of the aquatint ground\u003c\/strong\u003e and the layered hand-coloring with a fidelity that recovers Audubon's original chromatic intention. The ornate composite frame, available in your choice of Gold, Silver, or Bronze finish, presents this landmark plate as the cabinet-scale natural history specimen it was always meant to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canvas Classics","offers":[{"title":"Small \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":68136880603371,"sku":"2621211","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":68136880636139,"sku":"2621212","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Charcoal \/ Classic","offer_id":68136880668907,"sku":"2621213","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":68136880701675,"sku":"262121R1","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":68136880734443,"sku":"262121R2","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":68136880767211,"sku":"262121R3","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":68136880799979,"sku":"262121R4","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":68136880832747,"sku":"262121R5","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":68136880865515,"sku":"2621221","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":68136880898283,"sku":"2621222","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Charcoal \/ Classic","offer_id":68136880931051,"sku":"2621223","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":68136880963819,"sku":"262122R1","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":68136880996587,"sku":"262122R2","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881029355,"sku":"262122R3","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881062123,"sku":"262122R4","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881094891,"sku":"262122R5","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":68136881127659,"sku":"2621231","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":68136881160427,"sku":"2621232","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Charcoal \/ Classic","offer_id":68136881193195,"sku":"2621233","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881225963,"sku":"262123R1","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881258731,"sku":"262123R2","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881291499,"sku":"262123R3","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881324267,"sku":"262123R4","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881357035,"sku":"262123R5","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":68136881389803,"sku":"2621241","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":68136881422571,"sku":"2621242","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Charcoal \/ Classic","offer_id":68136881455339,"sku":"2621243","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881488107,"sku":"262124R1","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881520875,"sku":"262124R2","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881553643,"sku":"262124R3","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881586411,"sku":"262124R4","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":68136881619179,"sku":"262124R5","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8606\/6923\/files\/john_james_audubon__wild_turkey_cock_hen_and_young__large__gold.jpg?v=1792367124","url":"https:\/\/canvasclassics.shop\/products\/john_james_audubon__wild_turkey_cock_hen_and_young","provider":"Canvas Classics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}