Audubon Aquatint, Great Horned Owl
AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Great Horned Owl, Plate 61.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
39 x 26 1/4 sheet, 50 x 37 inches framed.
Comparable: Arader Galleries, 2019 - $68,750; Arader Galleries, 2017 - $51,850.
No matter where you are standing the eyes of these two owls will follow you around the room.
"The flight of the Great Horned Owl is elevated, rapid and graceful. It sails with apparent ease, and in large circles, in the manner of an eagle, rises and descends without the least difficulty, by merely inclining its wings or its tail, as it passes through the air. Now and then, it glides silently close over the earth, with incomparable velocity, and drops, as if shot dead, on the prey beneath. At other times, it suddenly alights on the top of a fence-stake or a dead stump, shakes its feathers, arranges them, and utters a shriek so horrid that the woods around echo to its dismal sound." - Audubon's Ornithological Biography.
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Great Horned Owl, Plate 61.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
39 x 26 1/4 sheet, 50 x 37 inches framed.
Comparable: Arader Galleries, 2019 - $68,750; Arader Galleries, 2017 - $51,850.
No matter where you are standing the eyes of these two owls will follow you around the room.
"The flight of the Great Horned Owl is elevated, rapid and graceful. It sails with apparent ease, and in large circles, in the manner of an eagle, rises and descends without the least difficulty, by merely inclining its wings or its tail, as it passes through the air. Now and then, it glides silently close over the earth, with incomparable velocity, and drops, as if shot dead, on the prey beneath. At other times, it suddenly alights on the top of a fence-stake or a dead stump, shakes its feathers, arranges them, and utters a shriek so horrid that the woods around echo to its dismal sound." - Audubon's Ornithological Biography.
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