Buy a botanical bird study for the story. Keep it for the deep green. This is a faithful reproduction of Audubon's Black-billed Cuckoo from Birds of America, with two cuckoos perched among magnolia blossoms and dark leaves. The room gains a slow, library quality — that calm focus older natural history plates bring to a wall. Hang it over a writing desk, a sideboard or a low sofa, where eyes naturally settle. It pairs well with brown timber, linen, brass and stoneware in earth tones. Keep nearby art quiet — abstract colour, loud typography or neon photography will fight the cream and green. Stretched on a wooden frame, ready to hang straight from the box.