Description
This illustration is unique among all of John James Audubon’s Birds of America, in that he chose to depict the family of House Wrens nesting in an old hat! The composition contains a male House Wren feeding the three juveniles while the female stands perched atop the hat.
The House Wren was painted while Audubon was living in Pennsylvania, from a bird that had nested right outside the window of his house.
The small, grayish brown wren can be seen throughout the United States.
The Princeton Edition was printed on heavy, acid free, museum-quality paper using specially designed archival inks. This is an “offset lithograph” – not a “giclee” poster or inexpensive inkjet print. It was created by highly-skilled printers using traditional printing presses, and up to a dozen metal printing plates were used in the complex process.
The result is a truly exceptional print of Audubon’s masterful artwork, unlike anything else available on the market. The printing is so fine that it is indistinguishable from the stone lithograph prints created by Audubon in the 18th century. This is a fine art edition strictly limited to 1500 prints. All Princeton’s are hand numbered and bear an embossed seal in the lower margin of the print.
As seen in the New York Times.
