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Flight

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Locomotion

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Images from the collections

Images about Flight

64 images from works
  • A bald eagle flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Honeybee
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by C. Bloemaert, c. 1650, after G. Lanfranco.
  • A man is blown out of a window by an enema. Engraving.
  • God appears to Noah and his family; three cherubs hold him aloft. Etching after Raphael.
  • The angel announces to the Virgin that she will give birth to Christ. Watercolour.
  • Head of a honeybee
  • Men travelling in hot-air balloons by night. Coloured wood engraving.
  • The Virgin looks away from her Bible as the angel appears, bearing lilies. Engraving by C. Visscher after A. de Weerdt.
  • Honey bee
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Works from the collections

78 works

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    Complete skeleton of a Harris' hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus)

    Michael Frank, Royal Veterinary College
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    Head of a bumble bee (Bombus), SEM

    Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen
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    Honeybee eye

    Annie Cavanagh
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    The flying machine of Thomas Moy. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 36670i
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    Head of a honeybee

    Annie Cavanagh
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Related topics

Angels
Christianity
Insecta
Women in Christianity
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint - Annunciation
Eye
Antennae
Lilies
Prayer
Childbirth - Religious aspects

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