Dove Collection (page 10)

Bardic Scholars Ca 600
Bardic scholars, one carrying a dove, the other a piglet Date: 1st century BC ?

Ballad / Mars Daughter
EARL MARs DAUGHTER She is carried off to her lover (who lives with her as a dove by day) by a a flight of swans (really her lovers brothers and their men). Date: traditional

Doves
A study of two doves on a branch

Couple dancing the polka on a music sheet
A couple wearing ermine-trimmed costumes dance the polka hand in hand on a music sheet entitled The Musical Bouquet. The music itself consists of The Redowa and Polish Polkas composed

Wagner, Parsifal Act three, recording 1929
Advertisement for a recording of Act three of Wagners opera Parsifal, which premiered at Bayreuth on 26 July 1882. Illustrated center is the white dove

Ilam Rock, Peak District, Derbyshire
Ilam Rock in Dove Dale, in the Derbyshire Peak District

Pigeon on a leafy perch
A perched pigeon. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Fable / Dove and Ant
THE DOVE AND THE ANT The ant bites the hunter on the ankle when he is about to shoot the dove, so repaying the doves good deed in rescuing him from the stream

Boucher / Dove / Lengelle
Helene Boucher, French aviator

Dove Lake, Tasmania
An aerial photograph of Dove Lake, surrounded by dramatic mountains, Tasmania, Australia

Society Enrollment Doc
A large certificate for the Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Widows and Orphans Fund, showing a widow and family saved from Want

Dove Cote 1555
An elaborate dovecote in 16th century Scandinavia

ROCK DOVE (Columba livia)

STOCK DOVE (Columba oenas) so called because it likes to nest in the stocks of trees

Mural Paintings / Rome
Christian wall paintings from the Calixtus catacombs in Rome. The scenes depicted include representations of the dove of Moses and the feeding of the 5000

Cross with Dove Etc
depicted as a coffin, containing a sacred heart and a chalice, with grapes symbolising wine, wheat representing bread, and a dove

Gatwick Aeroplanes
Aeroplanes on one of the runways at London Gatwick Airport, including a Dove and a DC 6

Gregorius I / Metz Ms
POPE GREGORIUS I Pope from 590 - 604 Also known as St Gregorius the Great

Hand and Dove
Hand, with lace and flowers, releasing a white dove

Birds / Turtle Doves
TURTLE DOVE (Turtur communis) A summer visitor to the British islands

Apostles Peter & John
converting the heathen in Samaria : the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, is in attendance, carrying a Holy Sacrament in its beak

French Defeat Flemish
The French defeat the Flemish at Rosebecque where Philip van Artevelde died with 30, 000 of his men. The white dove hovering above the king of France, was an omen of victory

Weber / Freischutz / Liebig5
Act three, scene five : the shooting contest - the magic bullet is guided by the devil to Caspar, not the dove that Max is aiming at

Lohengrin Restores Godf
Lohengrin transforms the swan that pulls his boat into Elsas brother Godfrey : from now on he ll make do with a Holy Dove

Luther Translating
MARTIN LUTHER depicted while translating the Bible, during his seclusion at the Wartburg : the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, inspires his labour

Social Scenes / Britain / 18
THE TIMES 2 of 2 a statue of George III presides over a well-ordered country, represented by a well tended garden

Girl with Doves C1890
A little girl with doves

Ground Doves / Birds
Ground Doves (Gallicolumba beccarrii: Bronze Ground Dove & Geotrygon Montana: Ruddy Quail Dove)

Pedro De Alcantara
SAN PEDRO DE ALCANTARA (Peter of Alcantara) Spanish Franciscan divine depicted receiving inspiration from the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove

Guns and Butter
Reducing the war industry means building up the World Trade

Augustuss Funeral
The apotheosis of Augustus - his spirit in the form of a dove soars above his funeral pyre, to the amazement and acclamations of the spectators

Noah on the Ark
Noah, on the deck of his Ark, welcomes the arrival of a dove carrying a twig, because it means that the floodwaters are subsiding

First Flying Device
THE FIRST FLYING DEVICE a model dove was made from wood by Archytas of Tarento, (428-347 BC) it was sustained by gas and had flapping wings

Noahs Ark (Holbein)
Dove brings olive branch to Noahs Ark

Return of the Dove
NOAHs ARK - The Dove returns with an olive twig, showing that the Flood is receding

The Dove Returns - Noah
Noah welcomes the dove back to the Ark, carrying the olive leaf which tells them that the waters are receding

Events / Australia
A Dutch crew, in the DEUYPHEN (= Dove) discover the Gulf of Carpentaria, but sail away almost at once

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