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White-headed Eagle
Falco leucocephalus
Today: Bald Eagle
John James Audubon, plate 31
From The Birds of America
The print
- Technique
- Facsimile giclée
- Sheet
- 39¼ × 26½ in, original size
- Format
- Double Elephant Folio
- Paper
- White etching paper, 270 g/m²
- Ink
- Archival ink
- Edition
- Limited to 250 prints
$725
Limited edition of 250
€650 incl. VAT in the EU
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Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
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A facsimile of the original sheet
- Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of The Birds of America, Haarlem.
- Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
- Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.
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About this plate
A Bald Eagle, the White-headed Eagle of Audubon’s day, stands on a rocky ledge with its talons sunk into a large catfish, a yellow catfish according to the lettering. Its beak is open and its head raised, and a fish head lies on the rock beside it. Behind is a grey, cloudy sky, so the white head and tail stand out against the dark brown body. Only adults have that white; young birds are brown, which is why Audubon’s giant ‘Bird of Washington’ is usually explained as a young eagle of this species drawn too large. He returned to the species in a second plate, 126.
White-headed Eagle (Falco leucocephalus) is plate 31 of The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1827–1838). Today the species is known as the Bald Eagle. This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 39¼ × 26½ in (100 × 67 cm).
About the original
John James Audubon (1785-1851) published The Birds of America between 1827 and 1838: 435 hand-coloured plates, printed on Double Elephant Folio sheets so that every bird could be shown at life size.
On 26 August 1833 Victor Gifford Audubon sold a complete set to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, which still keeps it. Heritage Prints makes its facsimiles from that set, at the size of the original sheet.
- Title
- The Birds of America
- Published
- 1827-1838
- Format
- Double Elephant Folio
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 435 prints
