Year: 2022
Edition: 30 prints
Image: Photoengraving from pen & ink sketch by artist. Hand-colored crest & moustache.
Text: By artist.
Paper: 245 GSM (90 lb.) Arnhem 1618 all-cotton paper.
Type: 18, 24, & 36 pt. Italian Old Style
Dimensions: 6” wide x 9” high
Series: A Field Guide to the Birds of Duluth Township
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS PRINT … a “bedlamite” is a 16th century word for a lunatic, from the inhabitants of the Hospital of St Mary of Bethlehem, a London insane asylum. Besides housing the mentally ill, Bedlam was a great place for a certain type of man to stash his “hysterical” wife so he could go off philandering with her money. This bird’s rising and falling call coming from the deep words certainly sounds deranged, which could be why the pileated woodpecker is a candidate for the inspiration of Woody Woodpecker. In this second print from my series A Field Guide to the Birds of Duluth Township, the Pileated’s territorial drumming is turned into the beating of his heart, as he becomes mad with love for his sweetie (and we all know what crazy things we have done for love!). My neighborhood pileated use to hang with me, eating carpenter ants from a pile of rotting pine trunks at the back of the yard. The pileated has a long tongue that can rouse out ants from the holes he bores. It is also barbed to skewer them individually. How could I resist the ant-ics pun in the text. It was beyond my control!
Price: $85.00
Tax: $6.27
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The Sign of the Two Ravens 