Watercolor Tawny Owl Greeting Card

Product description

This card features a watercolor illustration of a tawny owl by Daniel Mackie. It is printed on high quality 330gsm / 120 lb heavy cardstock, and left blank inside for a personal message.

In Lord Tennyson’s poem, The Owl (1830) he describes the owl as having,”five wits.” The concept of five outward wits (senses: taste, smell, etc) and five inward wits (“common wit”, “imagination”, “fantasy”, “estimation”, and “memory”) came to medieval thinking from Classical philosophy, but in Early Modern English, “wit” and “sense” overlapped in meaning. Both could mean a faculty of perception. So for the owl in Tennyson’s poem to have five wits suggests it was in possession of considerable mental agility!