Audubon Aquatint, Iceland or Jer Falcon
AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Iceland or Jer Falcon, Plate 366.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38” x 25 1/4” sheet, 49 1/2” x 37” framed.
Comparable: Guernsey's, 2013 - $170,800; Arader Galleries, 2014 - $134,200.
My son and his companions returned towards evening. The two Hawks which they had brought with them, I knew at once to be of a species which I had not before seen, at least in America. Think not that I laid them down at once--No, reader, I attentively examined every part of them. Their eyes, which had been carefully closed by the young hunters, I opened, to observe their size and colour. I drew out their powerful wings, distended their clenched talons, looked into their mouths, and admired the sharp tooth-like process of their upper mandible. I then weighed them in my hand, and at length concluded that no Hawk that I had ever before handled, looked more like a great Peregrine Falcon.
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Iceland or Jer Falcon, Plate 366.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38” x 25 1/4” sheet, 49 1/2” x 37” framed.
Comparable: Guernsey's, 2013 - $170,800; Arader Galleries, 2014 - $134,200.
My son and his companions returned towards evening. The two Hawks which they had brought with them, I knew at once to be of a species which I had not before seen, at least in America. Think not that I laid them down at once--No, reader, I attentively examined every part of them. Their eyes, which had been carefully closed by the young hunters, I opened, to observe their size and colour. I drew out their powerful wings, distended their clenched talons, looked into their mouths, and admired the sharp tooth-like process of their upper mandible. I then weighed them in my hand, and at length concluded that no Hawk that I had ever before handled, looked more like a great Peregrine Falcon.
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