WATERMARK WILL NOT APPEAR ON PURCHASED PIECE Item specifics Seller Notes: Highest quality print, in MINT condition, professionally printed on beautiful lustre finish photographic paper. Country/Region of Manufacture: United States. The photographic poster is packed in a highly protective hard photographic mailer and shipped via UPS / United States Postal Service (U.S.P.S.) First Class Mail within one business day (usually the same day). Legendary PILEATED WOODPECKER Poster | Audubon Print | 1829 American Heritage 11 X 17 Inches | AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851) | "The Birds of America" | Magnificent Print | 11X17 Picture | PL. 111 | Plate 111 | RARE | Poster Art Print. About the image itself ... Next to the rare ivory-billed, the pileated is the largest of all North American woodpeckers. This plate, a combination of pencil, ink, watercolor, and tempera, is based on a painting probably executed in 1829 at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, and considered to be one of Audubon’s finest works. He wrote, “When followed [the pileated woodpecker] always alights on the tallest branches or trunks of trees, removes to the side farthest off, from which it every moment peeps, as it watches you progress in silence.” Audubon also wrote: “The observation of many years has convinced me, that Woodpeckers of all sorts have the bill longer when just fledged than at any future period of their life, and that through use it becomes not only shorter, but also much harder, stronger, and sharper.”