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Hawk Owl

Artwork title: Hawk Owl

Two mottled brown, black, and white owls with yellow eyes and beaks perched on leafless branches of the same tree, the bottom owl has his wings spread and head pointed down to reveal a head that is shaped more like a hawk's than an owl's First octavo edition

Year: 1840

Artist: John James Audubon

Lithograph
— Hand-colored lithograph
Ink on Paper
Sheet Size: 9 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.
French American (b. Haiti)
1785-1851
The Sheila J. McCartney Collection
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