Butterflies - William Baxter Closson Phone Case

$48USD
About the Phone Case

Finishes

• Gloss for a lustrous statement
• Matte for velvety refinement

Reasons to Love Them

• Dual layer case offers extra protection for the accident prone — durable shatterproof outer layer, tight silicone inner layer for shock absorption
• HD print quality and finish
• Open access to ports/buttons
• Raised rim guards screen/camera
• Snaps on/off with ease
• Sublimated printing means the artwork on your case won't fade, crack or peel
• Certified non-toxic by REACH, RoHS and TÜV Rheinland

Production

• Printed locally in USA, UK, EU & AUS
• Made-to-order in 2-3 days on average

6 Month Warranty

Your new treasure comes with a 6 month warranty, protecting against any defects and faults that can be traced to its production. Meaning if your treasure develops a fault or defect due to its components or construction, you’ll get a replacement sent out free of charge — no surprise extras, no runaround.

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About the Artwork

Wild grasses bow beneath a soot-dark sky, and two pale butterflies materialize like half-remembered visitors in William Baxter Closson's wood engraving. The Boston engraver carves his meadow with meticulous burin strokes—wheat stalks, clustered blossoms, and seed-tufted stems building a nocturnal prairie where flora thickens toward charcoal obscurity.

Closson's late nineteenth-century technique harnesses crosshatched tonality to summon atmosphere rather than description. The ivory-winged Lepidoptera hover at the threshold of visibility, their vein patterns etched against the inked expanse like fleeting signals from a twilight garden. Sepia warmth bleeds through the engraving's carbon shadows, lending the composition a Tonalist quietude.

Here, American reproductive printmaking transcends illustration, becoming meditation on presence and absence—the moment before butterflies return to darkness, grasses settle, and the meadow reclaims its silence.

Origin Story

William Baxter Palmer Closson (1848–1926) was an American painter and wood engraver whose art bridged print and paint with lyrical precision. Born in Thetford, Vermont, to a legislator father and a mother descended from painter Benjamin West, Closson began as a railroad clerk before apprenticing under engraver Samuel Smith Kilburn in Boston. His engravings for Harper’s Magazine honed the finesse later seen in his luminous canvases. A close contemporary of George Fuller, Closson’s works—now held at the Smithsonian, Wadsworth Atheneum, and Cleveland Museum of Art—capture the quiet grace of late-19th-century American realism with reflective, devotional calm.

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Livraison gratuite vers les États-Unis continentaux, Canada, le Royaume-Uni, l’UE, l’Australie, la Nouvelle-Zélande et plus encore : voir la liste complète ici.

2. Produit à la demande

Imprimé après votre achat dans des ateliers d’impression à travers les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni, l’UE et l’Australie. Produit, contrôlé pour la qualité, emballé avec soin et confié à des transporteurs de confiance dans un délai moyen de 72 à 96 heures.

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États-Unis : 4-9 jours • Canada : 5-12 jours • Royaume-Uni : 4-9 jours • UE : 5-10 jours • Australie : 4-9 jours • Nouvelle-Zélande : 5-12 jours • Reste du monde : 3-4 semaines

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  • Luxe art armor with a precise fit
  • HD printed artwork won't fade, crack or peel
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REACH, RoHS and TÜV Rheinland certified. So your new treasure contains no harmful chemicals or hazardous substances.

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Chic and shatterproof

Easy access to buttons and clear, open ports for connectivity. Plus a raised rim guard for your screen & camera.

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Vivid, permanent, full-coverage print infused into the outer layer with a sublimation dye process. Meaning your art won't fade, crack or peel.
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High-quality colour print which is fully 3D wrapped around the entire body of the case; covering all corners, sides and edges equally

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