Audubon Aquatint Barred Owl
AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Barred Owl, Plate 46.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38 3/8” x 25 3/4” sheet.
Comparable: Arader Galleries, 2017 - $19,520.
"The Barred Owl is a great destroyer of poultry, particularly of chickens when half-grown. It also secures mice, young hares, rabbits, and many species of small birds, but is especially fond of a kind of frog of a brown colour, very common in the woods of Louisiana. I have heard it asserted that this bird catches fish, but never having seen it do so, and never having found any portion of fish in its stomach, I cannot vouch for the truth of the report. " - Audubon's Ornithological Biography.
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Barred Owl, Plate 46.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38 3/8” x 25 3/4” sheet.
Comparable: Arader Galleries, 2017 - $19,520.
"The Barred Owl is a great destroyer of poultry, particularly of chickens when half-grown. It also secures mice, young hares, rabbits, and many species of small birds, but is especially fond of a kind of frog of a brown colour, very common in the woods of Louisiana. I have heard it asserted that this bird catches fish, but never having seen it do so, and never having found any portion of fish in its stomach, I cannot vouch for the truth of the report. " - Audubon's Ornithological Biography.
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