About the Artwork
Great-Footed Hawk
1827
John James Audubon (Artist) American, 1785-1851 Robert Havell and Son (Engraver) English Robert Havell and Son (Printer) English John James Audubon (Publisher) American, 1785-1851
Engraving, etching and aquatint printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper
Image: 20 1/2 × 30 3/4 inches (52.1 × 78.1 cm) Sheet (trimmed inside platemark): 24 7/8 × 37 5/8 inches (63.2 × 95.6 cm) Framed: 33 × 45 3/4 × 1 1/2 inches (83.8 × 116.2 × 3.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Ormond E. Hunt
46.129
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, lower left: Drawn from Nature and Published by John J. Audubon. F.R.S.E. M.W.S.
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: BX16-6 Inscribed, in plate, upper left: No. 4. Inscribed, upper right: PLATE 16. Inscribed, lower left: Great-Footed Hawk, [hyphen is in pencil, x in pencil above the t in Great and the F in Footed] Male 1. Female 2. | FALCO PEREGRINUS. [x in pencil above the P] Inscribed, lower right: Engraved, Printed & Coloured, by R. Havell & Son, Lond[on] [end of inscription is matted out]
Watermark: J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL
Provenance
(Weyhe Gallery, New York, New York, USA);1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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John James Audubon; Robert Havell and Son, Great-Footed Hawk, 1827, engraving, etching and aquatint printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Ormond E. Hunt, 46.129.
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