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Image:
7.50" x 10.00"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.00" x 15.50"
Madeiran large white butterfly Framed Print
by Moira Risen
Product Details
Madeiran large white butterfly framed print by Moira Risen. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
The Madeiran large white butterfly – is endemic to the island of Madeira, reaching a size from 55-65 mm. Considering that it was last collected in... more
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Artist's Description
The Madeiran large white butterfly – is endemic to the island of Madeira, reaching a size from 55-65 mm. Considering that it was last collected in 1986 and not found since than despite several surveys later during the 1980s and 1990s it is most probably extinct. The reason for its decline might be – beside habitat loss – a parasitoid wasp or a virus infection which brought out after the small white (Pieris rapae) was introduced to Madeira in the 1970s.
A few years ago I started a wildlife conservation-environmental awareness poster project called ‘12images’ - you can find more details and information about it on my blog: http://www.12images.net/endangered-and-extinct-animals/12-images-for-environmental-awareness/.
I started with two 12 piece series featuring already extinct and critically endangered animals - these are the images of these two collections. I plan to continue the project with more collections from time to time - I've already made another portr...
About Moira Risen
Collections featuring original artwork of illustrator and writer Moira Risen and carefully curated collections of digitally restored and cleaned illustrations from artists of the Golden Age, vintage botanical drawings, advertising posters from the early 1900's, traditional Chinese flower and bird paintings and some selected works of modernist painters. With licensing inquiries or any other questions please contact Moira personally via this email. You find more information about her and her creative projects on her personal website and on her blog. About Moira's artwork: 'I rather label my creations illustrations than classic fine art pieces because almost always there's a story (or at least a fragment of a story...) behind them -...
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