AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851), Mottled Owl or Screech Owl, (Plate 97), 1827–1838

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785 - 1851)

Mottled Owl or Screech Owl, Plate 97

From the Birds of America

Aquatint engraving with original hand color

London: Robert Havell, 1827–1838

Paper size: 38 x 25 1/4 in.

Framed size: 49 1/2 x 37 in.

“You are presented, kind reader, with three figures of this species, the better to shew you the differences which exist between the young and the full-grown bird. The contrast of colouring in these different stages I have thought it necessary to exhibit, as the Red Owl of WILSON and other naturalists is merely the young of the bird called by the same authors the Mottled Owl, and which, in fact, is the adult of the species under consideration” - John James Audubon, Birds of America