Plate 110
Havell CLXXI
Barn Owl
(Tyto alba)
This pair of owls was given to Audubon, as he wrote in his text, “by my friend Richard Harlan, M.D., of Philadelphia. They had been brought from the south, and were fine adult birds in excellent plumage.” In Havell’s engraving of this plate a night scene was added as background. The drawing is inscribed at lower left “New Jersey July 1832.”
Source: The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon. Copyright 1966 by American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.
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