Birds of prey prints
Eagles, falcons, hawks and vultures by John Gould and John James Audubon, among them Audubon’s Golden Eagle and his White-headed Eagle, the bald eagle of today, and the falcons of Hermann Schlegel’s Traité de fauconnerie. Every print is a facsimile giclée at the size of the original sheet, limited to 250.
115 prints
Great-footed Hawk
$725
Golden Eagle
$185
Accoutrement de Fauconnerie I
$235
White-headed Eagle
$725
Black Vulture
$185
Accoutrement de Fauconnerie II
$235
Stanley Hawk
$725
Bengal Vulture
$185
Frontispice avec 11 vignettes
$235
Red-tailed Hawk
$725
Shaheen Falcon
$185
Le Groënlandais, faucon blanc mué
$235
Red-shouldered Hawk
$725
Red-naped Falcon
$185
Le Groënlandais, faucon blanc mué (b)
$235
Winter Hawk
$725
Saker Falcon
$185
Le faucon hagard
$235
Swallow-tailed Hawk
$475
Lanner Falcon
$185
Le gerfaut sors
$235
Fish Hawk or Osprey
$725
Jugger Falcon
$185
Le gerfaut sors
$235
Broad-winged Hawk
$725
White-winged Red-footed Kestrel
$185
Le lanier hagard
$235
Pigeon Hawk
$475
Black-and-white Crested Eagle
$185
Le sacre hagard
$235
Mississippi Kite
$475
Govinda Kite
$185
Le tiercelet hagard de faucon d’Islande
$235
White-headed Eagle
$725
Egyptian Vulture
$185
Le tiercelet hagard de faucon d’Islande
$235
Goshawk
$725
Spotted Eagle
$185
Le tiercelet hagard de gerfaut
$235
American Sparrow Hawk
$475
Sea Eagle
$185
Le tiercelet hagard de gerfaut
$235
Turkey Buzzard
$725
Osprey
$185
Le tiercelet sors de faucon au plumage de cresserelle
$235
Brasilian Caracara Eagle
$725
Common Buzzard
$185
Le tiercelet sors de l’autour
$235
About birds of prey prints
John James Audubon drew his raptors at life size: the Golden Eagle of plate 181 carries a hare over snowy peaks, and the Fish Hawk of plate 81 rises from the water with a fish in its talons. In his watercolour of the Golden Eagle a tiny hunter crosses a log below, but the engraver left him out; Audubon’s birds of prey and the missing hunter tells the story.
Hermann Schlegel and Abraham Hendrik Verster van Wulverhorst printed their Traité de fauconnerie in fewer than 100 copies. Its life-size hawks, mainly by Joseph Wolf, launched his career, and two plates show heron hawking at Het Loo. John Gould’s eagles, falcons, kites and harriers come from four of his books, from the ‘large tyrants of the air’ of The Birds of Great Britain, with a Golden Eagle of its own, to the Wedge-tailed Eagle of The Birds of Australia and the harpy eagle of New Guinea.