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.
Black-cheeked Falcon
$185
Black Falcon
$185
White-fronted Falcon
$185
Brown Hawk
$185
Western Brown Hawk
$185
New Holland Goshawk
$185
White Goshawk
$185
Radiated Goshawk
$185
Australian Goshawk
$185
West Australian Goshawk
$185
Collard Sparrow Hawk
$185
Black-breasted Buzzard
$185
Allied Kite
$185
Square-tailed Kite
$185
Black-shouldered Kite
$185
Letter-winged Kite
$185
Crested Hawk
$185
Allied Harrier
$185
Jardine’s Harrier
$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.