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Description: | This watercolour study of a White Owl, commonly known as a Barn Owl, is reproduced as a wood-engraving in 'Land Birds' (1797) p.61. Notice how Bewick represents the soft and downy quality of the feathers, especially those around the eyes. He preferred to draw from live or newly-killed specimens. Stuffed ones, he believed, did not show the true pattern of the feathers. Bewick's daughters gave most of his watercolours to the British Museum and Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne. This one however, now in the Pease Collection, was given to Joseph Crawhall (1821-1896). He was a friend of the Bewick family and an executor of Isabella Bewick's will. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: 1792 | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | Thomas Bewick | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/discoveringb... | Go to resource |
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