Eurasian eagle-owl, Bubo bubo, and tawny owl, Strix aluco. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by Guyard after Jean Gabriel Pretre from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Guyard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780~1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the

---

Eurasian eagle-owl, Bubo bubo, and tawny owl, Strix aluco. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by Guyard after Jean Gabriel Pretre from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Guyard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780~1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century.

---

Size: 4185px × 6436px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1816, aigrettes, aluco, artist, bird, brown, bubo, chat-huant, chouette, copperplate, de, dictionary, dictionnaire, directed, duc, dumont, eagle-owl, engraved, engraving, gabriel, grand, guyard, handcoloured, history, illustration, jean, jean-francois, levrault, natural, naturelles, nocturnal, ornithologie, ornithology, owl, painter, paris, pierre, predator, pretre, prey, published, sainte-croix, science, sciences, stipple, strix, tawny, turpin, zoology