White-tailed Deer Framed Print
White-tailed Deer Framed Print
Size & framing
12 × 12 in overall, in a 0.75 in wood frame (Black or Red Oak). The plate sits on an ivory sheet with a border of about an inch, like a matted print.
Printed on 189 g/m² enhanced matte paper, behind an acrylic front. Hanging hardware is included.
Prefer to frame it yourself? It also comes unframed.
A buck and a doe at the water's edge.
The print
- The full plate with its name, legend and credits, re-rendered from the source scan at print size, not enlarged from a shirt file.
- Restored from a library scan of the original book; nothing redrawn.
- Keep out of direct sunlight; dust the frame with a dry cloth.
Shipping & production
Each print is printed and framed for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days, then shipped in its own box (separate from any shirts in the same order). Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay.
Returns
If your print or frame arrives damaged or misprinted, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every print is made to order, we can't accept returns for a change of mind.
Plate 017
From the book
- Species
- Odocoileus virginianus
- As named in the book
- Common or Virginian Deer; Cervus virginianus.
- Artist
- J. J. Audubon & J. Bachman
- Book
- The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, pl. XXVIII, 1845–48
Then and now
Scarce across much of the East around 1900; now numbering in the tens of millions.
Field notes
"Common," Audubon called it. Fifty years later it nearly wasn't.
Audubon and Bachman called it the "Common or Virginian Deer," and in the 1840s common was the right word. The plate shows a pair at a creek's edge: the doe drinking, the buck behind her with his head up, white throat patch bright against a summer coat.
By the end of the 1800s, market hunting and the clearing of eastern forests had cut whitetails to perhaps 300,000 across the continent. In much of the East a deer track was news. The turn came with laws: the Lacey Act of 1900 made it a federal crime to ship illegally killed game across state lines, states set seasons and limits, and game departments moved deer into empty range, paid for largely by hunters.
It worked almost too well. Today there are roughly thirty to thirty-five million white-tailed deer, in suburbs, on farm edges, in woods your grandfather never saw one in.
- 1845–48Audubon and Bachman's "Common or Virginian Deer."
- c. 1900About 300,000 left across the continent.
- 1900The Lacey Act ends the interstate trade in illegal game.
- TodayRoughly 30–35 million.