Audubon Aquatint, Barred Owl
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Barred Owl, Plate 46.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
39" x 26" sheet.
Comparables: Arader Galleries, 2019 - $22,500; Arader Galleries, 2021 - $21,600.
"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, 1831).
Barred Owl, Plate 46.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
39" x 26" sheet.
Comparables: Arader Galleries, 2019 - $22,500; Arader Galleries, 2021 - $21,600.
"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, 1831).
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Audubon Aquatint, Barred Owl
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