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.
Golden Eagle
$185
Black Vulture
$185
Bengal Vulture
$185
Shaheen Falcon
$185
Red-naped Falcon
$185
Saker Falcon
$185
Lanner Falcon
$185
Jugger Falcon
$185
White-winged Red-footed Kestrel
$185
Black-and-white Crested Eagle
$185
Govinda Kite
$185
Egyptian Vulture
$185
Spotted Eagle
$185
Sea Eagle
$185
Osprey
$185
Common Buzzard
$185
Rough-legged Buzzard
$185
Honey Buzzard
$185
Goshawk
$185
Sparrow Hawk
$185
Iceland Falcon
$185
Iceland Falcon – young
$185
Greenland Falcon, light race, adult and young
$185
Greenland Falcon, dark race
$185
Greenland Falcon, dark race, young
$185
Norwegian or Gyrfalcon
$185
Peregrine Falcon
$185
Hobby
$185
Merlin
$185
Orange-legged Hobby
$185
Kestrel
$185
Kite or Glead
$185
Black Kite
$185
Marsh-Harrier
$185
Marsh-Harrier (young)
$185
Hen Harrier
$185
Ash-coloured Harrier
$185
Black-mantled Goshawk
$185
Marquis Doria’s Goshawk
$185
New-Guinea Harpy-Eagle
$185
Gurney’s Cuckoo-Falcon
$185
Wedge-tailed Eagle
$185
Little Australian Eagle
$185
White-Bellied Sea Eagle
$185
White-breasted Sea Eagle
$185
Whistling Eagle
$185
White-headed Osprey
$185
Grey Falcon
$185
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.