Birds of America Volume 1 (Plate 18)

Adopt-an-Audubon Plate sponsor benefits:

  • Credit on the bird label whenever it is exhibited
  • Recognition on the Museum’s digital donor board in the main lobby
  • Museum individual plus membership for 2 years (maximum of 2 years)
  • For adoptions of $6,000 or more, a copy of our 250th anniversary book, The Charleston Museum: America’s First Museum
  • For adoptions of $9,000 or more, an invitation to a private “behind the scenes” tour, for up to 4 people, of the Museum Archives and Collections Storeroom
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Our Adopt-an-Audubon Plate Program is a means to support the Museum’s Archives collections and should in no way be construed as obtaining an ownership interest in these collections.

Plate XVIII

Bewick’s Wren
Drawn by Nature by J. J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell

In shape, colour and movements, it nearly resembles the Great Carolina Wren, and the House Wren. It has not, however, the quickness of motion, nor the liveliness, of either of these birds.

I honoured this species with the name of Bewick, a person too well known for his admirable talents as an engraver on wood, and for his beautiful work on the Birds of Great Britain, to need any eulogy of mine.

– John J. Audubon

$600.00

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