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Pileated Woodpecker Princeton Audubon Limited Edition
Dryocopus pileatus Flora: fox grapes or red grapes, Vitis labrusca, or V. palmata Print size: 26 1/4" x 39 1/4"; image size: 24 1/2" x 37" Produced 1985 - Princeton Audubon Limited Edition Next to the rare or perhaps extinct ivory-billed, the pileated is the largest of all North American woodpeckers. This plate, a combination of pencil, ink, watercolor, and tempera, is based on a painting probably executed in 1829 at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, and considered to be one of Audubon's finest works. He wrote, "When followed [the pileated woodpecker] always alights on the tallest branches or trunks of trees, removes to the side farthest off, from which it every moment peeps, as it watches you progress in silence." Audubon also wrote: "The observation of many years has convinced me, that Woodpeckers of all sorts have the bill longer when just fledged than at any future period of their life, and that through use it becomes not only shorter, but also much harder, stronger, and sharper."
SKU: 221111
Category: Posters and Prints
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