Black Dove Gallery

The Holy Spirit as a bird descending with spread wings at top center

The Holy Spirit as a bird descending with spread wings at top center; the twelve Apostles standing below gesturing to it in front of an archway, 1518

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Pigeons, lithograph, published in 1893

Pigeons: 1) Black German Nun (Altdeutscher Mohrenkopf); 2 - 3) Nuremberg swallow (NAOErnberger Schwalbentaube); 4) German Shield Owl, red (Deutsches SchildmA?vchen, rot); 5) Antwerp carrier pigeon (Antwerpener Brieftaube); 6) Old German tail owl (FarbenschwA?nziges deutsches MA?wchen); 7) Fantail pigeon (WeiA?schwA?nzige Pfauentaube); 8) Ice pigeon (Eistaube); 9) Danish Tumbler (DA?nischer TAOEmmler); 10) Dutch Cropper (HollA?ndischer ElsterkrA?pfer); 11) Long-beaked tumbler (Langschnabel-TAOEmmler); 12) Archangel pigeon (Gimpeltaube); 13) Fantail pigeon (WeiA?bindige Pfauentaube); 14) Konigsberg Moorhead (KA?nigsberger Mohrenkopf-TAOEmmler); 15) Poeranian pouter, white (Pommerscher KrA?pfer, weiA?); 16) Jacobin Pigeon, or Capuchine pigeon (GemA?nchte PerAOEckentaube); 17) Florentine pigeon (Florentiner Taube); 18) Monk pigeon (MA?nchtaube); 19) Bokhara Trumpeter (Bucharische Trommeltaube); 20) Brunner Pouter (BrAOEnner KrA?pfer). Lithograph, published in 1893

Dreamland with Chevalier Ernest Thorn

Dreamland with Chevalier Ernest Thorn (22nd September 1853 -21st May 1928) was a touring magician and inventor from Austria. After first being an assistant to Bellachini, he made extensive tours of Europe, America and the Orient. He was assisted by his wife Julia. His act An Hour in Dreamland introduced a number of his creations. Among his innovations was the cremation illusion in which his assistant vanished in flames as she stood within an asbestos curtain. Another was "Noah's Ark" in which a model of the Ark, first shown empty, produced various animals, climaxing in the production of Noah's wife. The image shows a black and white photograph of Thorn asleep in a chair surrounded by an illustrative dreamlike scene. This features a woman floating behind him with a flowing dress and a white dove flying beside her. Date: 1800s, 1900s

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