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Various birds in flight, including eagles, a heron, a pigeon and ducks. Etching after F. Barlow.

A pigeon.

Birds of the town shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.

A dove. Coloured engraving.

A pigeon flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A bustard, peacock and peahen, stock dove and squirrel in the grounds of a large house. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.

Birds in a farmyard: magpie, sparrow, turkey, dove, cockerel and hen. Etching by J. Griffier after F. Barlow.

Six heads of birds: cocks, parrots and pigeons. Drawing, c. 1789.

Various birds: jay, woodpecker, wood pigeon, woodcock, curlew and bittern. Etching by J. Simon after F. Barlow.

Two identical doves apparently asleep representing the difficulty in distinguishing between those who have AIDS and those who do not; an advertisement by the Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção à AIDS, Gapa/BS, Brazil. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Birds on a farm: cockerels, hens, chicks and doves. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.

Columbarium, or, The pigeon-house : being an introduction to a natural history of tame pigeons. Giving an account of the several species known in England, with the method of breeding them, their distempers and cures. ... / By John Moore.

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Pigeons

Images from the collections

Images referencing Pigeons

Works from the collections

A dove. Coloured engraving.

Six heads of birds: cocks, parrots and pigeons. Drawing, c. 1789.

Birds on a farm: cockerels, hens, chicks and doves. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.

Various birds in flight, including eagles, a heron, a pigeon and ducks. Etching after F. Barlow.

Columbarium, or, The pigeon-house : being an introduction to a natural history of tame pigeons. Giving an account of the several species known in England, with the method of breeding them, their distempers and cures. ... / By John Moore.

Pigeons

Images from the collections

Images referencing Pigeons

Works from the collections

A dove. Coloured engraving.

Six heads of birds: cocks, parrots and pigeons. Drawing, c. 1789.

Birds on a farm: cockerels, hens, chicks and doves. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.

Various birds in flight, including eagles, a heron, a pigeon and ducks. Etching after F. Barlow.

Columbarium, or, The pigeon-house : being an introduction to a natural history of tame pigeons. Giving an account of the several species known in England, with the method of breeding them, their distempers and cures. ... / By John Moore.

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