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
Golden Eagle
$725
Rough-legged Buzzard
$185
Le tiercelet sors de l’autour
$235
Labrador Falcon
$725
Honey Buzzard
$185
Le vol du héron 1
$235
Black-winged Hawk
$475
Goshawk
$185
Le vol du héron 2
$235
Marsh Hawk
$725
Sparrow Hawk
$185
L’autour hagard
$235
Common Buzzard
$475
Iceland Falcon
$185
L’autour hagard
$235
Sharp-skinned Hawk
$350
Iceland Falcon – young
$185
L’émérillon hagard
$235
Rough-legged Falcon
$475
Greenland Falcon, light race, adult and young
$185
L’émérillon hagard, le tiercelet sors et hagard d’émérillon
$235
Californian Vulture
$725
Greenland Falcon, dark race
$185
L’épervier sors et le mouchet hagard
$235
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.