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Great Carolina Wren Princeton Audubon Limited Edition
Carolina Wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus Flora: scarlet buckeye, Aesculus pavia Print size: 26 1/4" x 39 1/4"; image size: 12" x 18 1/2" Produced 1985 - Princeton Audubon Limited Edition Based on a composition painted in Louisiana or Mississippi in 1822. Audubon's young assistant, Joseph Mason, was the artist who painted the blossoming twig which Audubon identified as a "Dwarf horse chestnut." The Carolina wren seems so full of song-clear, strong, yet sweet. This song consists of loud, rapid triplets, described variously as a spirited three-part tea-kettle, tea-kettle, tea-kettle, or a two-part wheedle, wheedle repeated half a dozen times. Unlike most other wrens, it is nonmigratory. Common in the Southeastern United States, it tends to extend its northern ranges after mile winters. Then, when severe winters return and decimate the ranks, the range limit retracts. Audubon had his own interpretations of the wren's melodic phrases. In April 1840 when in Richmond, Virginia, he wrote; "The spring is now fairly open, and this day although quite rainy and sad looking I have seen several Hum birds and heard the ever pleasing note of 'Sweet William' from the Carolina Wren..." On another occasion he wrote of the bird: "The little fellow droops its tail and sings with great energy a short ditty somewhat resembling the words come-to-me, come-to-me, repeated several times in quick succession, so loud, and yet so mellow, that it is always agreeable to listen to them."
SKU: 22178
Category: Posters and Prints
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