Barn Swallow Fine Art Bird Print by John James Audubon

An archival premium Quality art Print of the Barn Swallow by John James Audubon for sale by Brandywine General Store. In this painting, Audubon features a male and female pair of the Barn Swallows in their full spring plumage in their nest. This nest is on the side of a board in a barn in which Mr. Audubon states that at least 20 pairs of these small birds had nests. These barn birds were plate or picture number 173 in the great ornithology book, The Birds of America, the first Havell edition. In the lower right corner it states engraved, parinted and colored by R Havell 1833. In his book Mr. Audubon describes the barn swallows thus "The Barn Swallow makes its first appearance at New Orleans from the middle of February to the first of March. They do not arrive in flocks, but apparently in pairs, or a few together, and immediately resort to the places where they have bred before, or where they have been reared. Their progress over the Union depends much on the state of the weather; and