Swooping Collection

A Swallow in flight
A swallow (Hirundo rustica) in flight. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

National Aviation Day Display poster
Poster, National Aviation Day Display, new events, new thrills, new aircraft, fly with the three aces, under the direction of Sir Alan Cobham, Coming Soon. 20th century

Douglas Dakota picking up a glider, Normandy; Second World W
Illustration showing a Douglas Dakota, C-47 Skytrain, swooping down with a hook trailing to pick up a Waco glider, Normandy, France, 1944

Cold pale light through the trees with Tawny Owl
Pale light pierces a blue and green woodland scene of thin, bare tree trunks. A swooping Tawny Owl has been added to the border framing the scene. Airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

A Barn Owl hunting a rat. Pen & ink illustration by Raymond Sheppard

WW2 - Fairey Battles Swooping Down
A colourful illustration of some British WW2 Fairey Battle bomber planes swooping down to earth in formation. Date: circa 1940s

Les Cerises
An illustration showing a number of ladies, all of whom have cherries lavishly decorating their fashionable dresses, hats and hair, birds are swooping between them. Date: circa 1901

Art thou warm, Maiden, by Arthur Rackham Date: 1916

Theatrical Drawing
A lot is happening in this graphic drawing. The image has many theatrical and musical elements, including a butterfly, which leaves a swooping trail of melodic notes

Pond in spring
The pond in spring, with wild flowers, blossom and a swooping swift. Date: 1885

Jugend front cover, naked woman feeding birds
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting a naked woman feeding birds. She holds food in her hands, and the birds swoop down. Date: 1898

A Sunset Fantasy landscape
A sunset Fantasy landscape, with two birds of prey (Peregrine Falcons?) swooping across a landscape of high peaks, a still sea and enveloping mists against the descending

Swallows in a fantasy landscape
Four Swallows in silhouette and a misty fantasy landscape, evoking aspects of the Engish Countryside. Airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Gull swoops above an empty rowing boat
A gull swoops above an empty rowing boat with oars resting across the sides. The boat rests propped up on some small rocks close to a large lake, glowing in the evening light

Flock of blue tits in summer scene on a Christmas card
Flock of blue tits in a summer scene on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Royal Naval Air Service in Great War Deeds, WW1
Flight Commander Hewlett of the Royal Naval Air Service (before the RAF was formed) almost colliding with a mast of a German warship during the air raid on Cuxhaven on Christmas Day 1914

Swooping owl weathervane 2011

Snowy Owl hunting a Hare
A Snowy Owl swoops to catch an Arctic Hare in its talons. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Eagle chasing an Arctic Hare
An Eagle swoops to catch a fleeing Arctic Hare in its outstretched talons. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Feeding the seagulls - Lake Geneva, Switzerland
A family feeding the Black headed gulls - Lake Geneva, Switzerland

Rural scene with swallow and stream
A pretty rural scene with a swallow swooping above a stream, with red poppies in the foreground and a lake and mountains in the background

Shooting Star Fairy
What you think are shooting stars are really long-haired fairies swooping across the skies

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