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This print is based on a painting done in Louisiana
in 1821 or 1822. Although cuckoos live almost entirely on caterpillars and seldom,
if ever, eat butterflies, Audubon portrayed one of the birds seizing a tiger
swallowtail. Joseph Mason probably painted the leaves and fruit of the pawpaw tree.
On December 10, 1826, Audubon wrote in his journal
about the progress of the first proof impressions for Birds of America. "It is
now a month since my work was begun...; the paper is of unusual size, called 'double
elephant' and the plates are to be finished in such superb style as to eclipse all of the
same kind in existence. The two plates now finished are truly beautiful. This
number consists of the Turkey-cock [this painting has been chosen to prove the necessity
of the size of the work], the Cuckoos on the pawpaws,..."
In seasons when caterpillars are abundant,
cuckoos usually become common in the infested localities. They are especially fond
of tent caterpillars and gypsy moth larvae, and with such plentiful food, the size of
their broods seems to increase. Unlike the European cuckoo, American cuckoos only
occasionally lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.
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Princeton Audubon prints
are far beyond mere reproductions. Princeton (formerly Princeton
Polychrome Press) earned an enviable nationwide reputation by
reproducing fine art prints for, among others, The National Gallery of
Art, National Portrait Gallery, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The
New-York Historical Society, and The Detroit Institute of Arts. The
finest reproductions of Picasso and Andrew Wyeth works were done by
Princeton. Princeton double elephant prints, the same size as life, are
also exceptional works of fine art and were produced by the same Master
Printer, the late David O. Johnson of Princeton New Jersey, who was also
one of the world's foremost collectors of the antique Audubon
originals. Princetons are thus the real deal in Audubon fine art, the
world's only direct-camera Audubon facsimiles.
Chris Lane of the
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW:
"...of all the full-size
facsimiles of Audubon's prints, those from Princeton Audubon Limited
come the closest in appearance and quality to the originals. Combining
this with their very reasonable cost make the Princeton Audubon
facsimiles winners for those looking to acquire some of the most
dramatic American natural history images ever produced."
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