Cooper Hawk (Chicken Hawk) with prey. Chromolithograph c1908

by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz

Antique print of Chicken Hawk or Cooper Hawk. Plate 3. Upper figure, adult male; lower figure, immature female. One-fourth natural size. c1908.

Antique print of a hawk. Original colour-printed lithograph by Louis Agassiz Fuertes for the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture published in 1908.

Born in Ithaca, New York, Louis Agassiz Fuertes(1874-1927) was an ornithologist, artist and illustrator. His work isconsidered as some of the most accurate and natural depictions of birds.

Page size is 22 x 13cm (8.5 x 5.25 inches)