Description: A crowned eagle seen from the front, with wings spread, head turned to one side, and talons outstretched left and right.

Description of difference: Eagles in Group A have the lower claw on the side of the beak. The top of the wing on the side of the beak is farther away from the head than the opposite wing. 

Briquet Comparison: B 85, B 86, B 87, B 91.^[1]

Found in folios: Leicester Sheet 1, Leicester Sheet 2, and Leicester Sheet 4.

Potential Twin: Eagle – Group B (Leicester Sheet 3)

[1] Because similarities to Briquet’s watermarks continue to be included in the literature, they have been cited here. Briquet comparisons were extracted from Carlo Pedretti and Carlo Vecce in “Apparati IV, V, Filigrane,” Il Codice Arundel 263 nella British Library: edizione in facsimile nel riordinamento cronologico dei suoi fascicoli (Florence: Giunti, 1998), 58-61; Carlo Pedretti, The Codex Hammer of Leonardo da Vinci, translated into English and annotated by Carlo Pedretti (Florence: Giunti Barbèra, 1987); Carmen C. Bambach in Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, 4 vols. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019); and Juliana Barone, ed., Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion, exh. cat. (London: The British Library, 2019).