Falcone

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 533–534
A detailed black and white illustration of a bird of prey, likely a falcon or gyrfalcon, perched on a branch. The bird is shown in profile, facing right, with its head slightly turned towards the viewer. It has a long, pointed beak, a short tail, and a patterned plumage with dark bars on its wings and back. The background is a simple, textured landscape with a few trees and a distant horizon.
Greenland Falcon (Falco candicans).

Falcone, ANIELLO, Italian battle-painter, born at Naples in 1600. He studied under Ribera (Lo Spagnoletto), and subsequently founded a school of painters at Naples. During Masaniello's outbreak (1647) he organised his scholars and dependents into a secret band (Compagnia della Morte) for assassinating Spaniards at night. On the suppression of the insurrection Falcone betook himself to France, but subsequently returned to Naples, where he died in 1665. His works, few in number, represent chiefly military scenes.

Source scan(s): p. 0548, p. 0549