Band Tailed Pigeon by John James Audubon art print

An archival premium Quality art Print of the Band Tailed Pigeon by John James Audubon for sale by Brandywine General Store. The artwork features a male and female pair of these colorful band tailed pigeons or doves setting in a dogwood tree eating the red berries. The dogwood is the genus Cornus Nutalli, Mr. Audubon had a sister of one of his friends draw the botanical parts of this painting. The dogwood shows the leaves, blooms and red berries very realistically and beautifully detailed and colored. Mr. Audubon included these birds in his epic ornithological reference book, The Birds of America, as plate or picture number 367. These were taken from the 1st Havell edition, of which Audubon painted or sketched these birds in his travels through the United States, then he would forward his sketches to Mr. Havell in London, who completed the painting of the birds and engraved them for the book. Columba Fasciata - Mr. Audubon describes the Band Tailed Pigeon thus "In the course of Colonel