Cardinal Brooch

$95.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Unique gifts for her. This brooch brings to life the Common Cardinal Grosbeak ( Cardinalis cardinalis ), also known as the Northern Cardinal, depicted in a 19th-century lithograph by John T. Bowen (American, ca. 1801–1856?) after the famous naturalist John James Audubon (American, b. Haiti, 1785–1851). Around 1820, Audubon made it his mission to paint every bird in North America. He subsequently created 435 preparatory watercolors for what would become The Birds of America, a lavish book of copperplate…