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Ink painting of a bird with red maple leaves – Vintage Print

Ink painting of a bird with red maple leaves — antique map
Ink painting of a bird with red maple leaves. Antique map from the Animals collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Ink painting of a bird with red maple leaves, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

Ink painting of a bird with red maple leaves

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Red maple leaves frame a single bird in this ink painting, a subject that has long stood for autumn and quiet observation in East Asian brush work. The composition leaves wide empty space around the bird and the branch, so the eye moves slowly from the feathers to the leaves and back. Ink painting of this kind was typically made with a few controlled strokes on paper or silk, where the brush's pressure and the wash of water carried the emotional weight. Birds and flowers, known as the bird-and-flower genre, were especially popular with scholars and painters who valued restraint and close attention to nature.

Original scan3,729 × 4,541 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
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