Snowy Owl By John James Audubon

A large, powerful owl of the high Arctic tundra, colored for camouflage during northern winters. In summer it may be nomadic, concentrating and nesting where there are high populations of the small rodents called lemmings. At other times it takes a wide variety of prey, including birds as big as geese.

During some winters, large numbers of Snowy Owls appear south of the Canadian border; those. Snowy Owl is an engraving by naturalist and painter John James Audubon. It was printed full size and is an early illustration of a snowy owl and part of The Birds of America.

Snowy Owl is an engraving by naturalist and painter John James Audubon. It was printed full size and is an early illustration of a snowy owl and part of The Birds of America. It was first published as part of a series in sections around 1831.

This specific engraving of the snowy owl, like others in The Birds of America, consists of a hand-coloured engraving, made from copper engraved plates. Snowy Owl is an Enlightenment Engraving Print created by John James Audubon from 1827 to 1838. It lives at the Watkinson Library, Trinity College in the United States.

The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Birds and Owl. Source Download See Snowy Owl in the Kaleidoscope "The Snowy Owl hunts during the day, as well as in the dusk. One of the 435 engravings to be found in naturalist and painter John James Audubon's epic The Birds of America, first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London.

Based upon original paintings by Audubon, each illustartive plate was engraved, printed, and hand colored by Robert Havell of London, and measured around 39 by 26 inches (99 by 66 cm). Here you can see a pair of snowy owls, the same breed as Hedwig, Harry's owl. The hand-coloured illustration appears in the enormous Birds of America, which shows every bird native to North America at actual size.

Snowy Owls Another important addition to the collection is a double elephant folio edition of 103 prints by artist and naturalist John James Audubon, from his illustrated publication Birds of America, 1826 - 1838. This gift is from the Richard B. Anderson Family Foundation.

John James Audubon, Snowy Owl, 1826. Original print from "John James Audubon's Birds of America" Hardcover 1946 XL edition book Antique condition is much less than typical wear for its age with light age staining and light color fade. In October 1971, employing the most faithful printing method available, the best materials and the ablest craftsmen of their age, the Amsterdam firm of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., in conjunction with the Johnson Reprint Corporation of New York, set out to produce the finest possible limited edition facsimile of the greatest bird book ever printed: the Havell edition of John James Audubon's.

John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictoral record of all the bird species of North America.