Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) in its time
Audubon presents the goshawk through patterned feathers and an active stance, blending natural history detail with pictorial drama. Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) is dated 1830 and is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The source record names it “Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29).” With Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29), the catalogue provides the facts of the object; the visual relationships carry the experience further.
Inside the composition
The goshawk's pattern, beak, and posture command a large sheet. The image is an artwork and a natural history claim, produced through printing as well as field observation. Follow one repeated shape or direction across Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29). Even when the forms differ, their relation can make the picture feel held together. This rhythm is easy to miss if you look only for a story.
What the medium can tell us
The collection records Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) as print. In Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29), materials help determine how marks could be laid down and how the result met its first viewers. The collection entry describes the surface on which those choices were made. The listed materials give Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) a physical history beyond its familiar digital image, including a support, surface, and scale. Look between the image of Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) and its object record. Each answers different questions about appearance, material, and scale.
John James Audubon and this work
Some plates show birds caught mid-action rather than still specimens. The prints required collaboration and commerce as well as field observation. Patterned feathers and an active stance take command of the sheet. Audubon’s goshawk offers both a claim about a species and a dramatic arranged encounter. No single work can summarize John James Audubon. Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) is valuable precisely because it gives that broad name a specific subject and set of visual choices. Another image by the same maker may use a related method toward another end, or change the method altogether. Those shifts are easier to recognize when the works are treated as objects with dates and materials. The pace of Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) deserves attention; another work by John James Audubon may move the eye quite differently. No single image can contain John James Audubon’s career. Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) is a vivid place to begin, with other works nearby to complicate the view.
The world around Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29)
His record includes the killing of birds for study and involvement in slavery. Those facts belong alongside artistic achievement when asking how knowledge was collected and who paid its costs. Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) carries a date, 1830, but it has also had a later life. Each collection, display, or reproduction offers another meeting with the same historical object. The linked source keeps Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) tied to a particular object while you continue exploring what its image makes visible.
Image and object record
The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29) as a work by John James Audubon from 1830 and records its medium as print. The collection credits the object to Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Follow the linked object record for its catalogue entry and any further notes on its history.
