Owl prints
Owls by John James Audubon and John Gould, from the Snowy Owl and the Great Horned Owl of The Birds of America to the Eagle Owl of Gould’s Birds of Great Britain. Audubon’s owls are printed on the full Double Elephant Folio sheet, 26½ × 39¼ in, Gould’s on his folio sheet of about 15 × 22 in, each as a facsimile giclée limited to 250.
Snowy Owl
$185
Eagle Owl
$185
Indian Scops Owl
$185
Bay Owl
$185
Brodie’s Owlet
$185
Speckled Wood-Owl
$185
Indian Screech Owl
$185
Grass Owl
$185
Barn-Owl
$185
Tawny or Brown Owl
$185
Long-eared Owl
$185
Short-eared Owl
$185
Scops Eared Owl
$185
Hawk Owl
$185
Tengmalm’s Owl
$185
Little Owl
$185
New Britain Hawk-Owl
$185
Forbes Hawk-Owl
$185
Salvadori’s Hawk-Owl
$185
Chestnut-faced Owl
$185
Masked Barn Owl
$185
Sooty Owl
$185
Delicate Owl
$185
Boobook Owl
$185
Spotted Owl
$185
Winking Owl
$185
Powerful Owl
$185
Rufous Owl
$185
About owl prints
In his drawings Audubon used pastel to give owls their soft plumage, and on the printed plates of The Birds of America Robert Havell rendered it in aquatint and hand colouring. Among his owls here are the Barred Owl, the Burrowing Owl and the Little Screech Owl. Five owls appear under the same name in Audubon and in Gould: the Snowy, Barn, Long-eared, Hawk and Tengmalm’s Owl, so an American plate can hang beside a British one.
John Gould’s owls come from four of his books. The ten of The Birds of Great Britain include the Snowy Owl, whose lithographic stone was dropped and broken early in the printing, so that later impressions show the damage; What is John Gould’s The Birds of Great Britain? tells more. The Birds of Australia adds Australian owls from the Masked Barn Owl to the Powerful Owl, and The Birds of Asia and The Birds of New Guinea add scops owls, an owlet and hawk-owls.