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Created with acrylic ink on paper. 30x22 inches (76x56 cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e4c56af2d82335294ca1f6/96f60c37-46be-4a32-86ba-1358f8519b9a/066961.jpg Birds - Turtle Dove - Make it stand out This page from Minerua Britanna (1612) by Henry Peacham depicts the widowed turtle dove, who “solitarie by herselfe remains, recording in most dolefull wife her woe, letting the pleasures, of the season goe.” Folger Shakespeare Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e4c56af2d82335294ca1f6/02771884-2ddf-4b1b-90cd-ee92983615ed/063421+copy.jpg Birds - Turtle Dove - Make it stand out Venus’s mighty carriage is drawn by two dainty turtle doves, as illustrated in Amorum emblemata (1608) by Otto Van Veen. 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