Peregrine Falcons (Duck Hawks)
John James Audubon (American, born Haiti, 1785–1851) · c. 1827 · oil on canvas
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About this picture
Peregrine Falcons (Duck Hawks) is a CC0 painting by John James Audubon (American, born Haiti, 1785–1851), dated c. 1827. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Peregrine Falcons (Duck Hawks)” (c. 1827) is a bird plate in the manner of The Birds of America: life-size, posed from both field observation and specimens.
About the artist
John James Audubon (1785–1851) published The Birds of America in large hand-colored plates. The birds are drawn life-size, often in a pose he had studied from specimens as well as from the field.
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