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.
Great-footed Hawk
$725
White-headed Eagle
$725
Stanley Hawk
$725
Red-tailed Hawk
$725
Red-shouldered Hawk
$725
Winter Hawk
$725
Swallow-tailed Hawk
$475
Fish Hawk or Osprey
$725
Broad-winged Hawk
$725
Pigeon Hawk
$475
Mississippi Kite
$475
White-headed Eagle
$725
Goshawk
$725
American Sparrow Hawk
$475
Turkey Buzzard
$725
Brasilian Caracara Eagle
$725
Golden Eagle
$725
Labrador Falcon
$725
Black-winged Hawk
$475
Marsh Hawk
$725
Common Buzzard
$475
Sharp-skinned Hawk
$350
Rough-legged Falcon
$475
Californian Vulture
$725
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.