Skip to main contentDescriptionA group of birds stands in a dark landscape setting. "When this two-volume boxed set came out in the late 1960s, it was the state of the art on knowledge of the world's raptors. It covered hawks & eagles, plus falcons and the monotypic families of Osprey and Secretarybird. The authors were renowned experts on the subject; the text was reasonably thorough and the range maps up-to-date (for the time), and every species was pictured on full-page plates showing one to a half-dozen birds. Sometimes these were six species together; on other plates it showed age/sex variation, or color morphs, or subspecies. Eight artists were included, among them legendary names like Roger Tory Peterson (Old World vultures), Don Eckelberry (large falcons, including full page paintings of birds like an Indian Peregrine perched against the backdrop of Rangaswami's Pillow -- a fantastic rock formation in south India), A. E. Gilbert (great tropical raptors) and D.M. Henry (his plate of variation in Gyrfalcon is superb), and Guy Coheleach (a variety of eagles and Buteos). J. C. Harrison seems to have done most of the lesser-known species... the "grunt work" as it were (and a good number are printed in black-and-white). In a book like this, the differences in artistic style is almost welcomed; these are not "field guide" art to be compared one to another, but a collection of great artwork combined with an authoritative text." - from www.montereybay.com
Plate from Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World
Artist/Maker
John Cyril Harrison
United Kingdom, 1898 - 1985
Date1968
Mediumgouache on paper
Dimensionsimage: 19 × 14 1/2 in. (48.3 × 36.8 cm)
frame: 27 1/2 × 22 1/2 in. (69.9 × 57.2 cm)
Credit LineAlfred F. King, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1996.032
ClassificationsPainting
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