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  2. Category:Swans in art - Wikipedia

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    Depictions of swans (genus Cygnus) in art. The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks . Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini .

  3. Swan - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Hemisphere species of swan have pure white plumage, but the Southern Hemisphere species are mixed black and white. The Australian black swan ( Cygnus atratus ) is completely black except for the white flight feathers on its wings; the chicks of black swans are light grey.

  4. John Macallan Swan - Wikipedia

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    Swan was born in Brentford, Middlesex, on 9 December 1846. He received his art training first in England at the Worcester and Lambeth schools of art and the Royal Academy schools, and subsequently in Paris, in the studios of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Emmanuel Frémiet. He began to exhibit at the Academy in 1878. [1]

  5. Tundra swan - Wikipedia

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    Woodcut by Robert Elliot Bewick of the swan named in memory of his father by William Yarrell. 1847 edition of Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds.. C. columbianus is the smallest of the Holarctic swans, at 115–150 cm (45–59 in) in length, 168–211 cm (66–83 in) in wingspan and a weight range of 3.4–9.6 kg (7.5–21.2 lb).

  6. Wings of Love (Pearson) - Wikipedia

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    The swan was "cemented in the imagination as a creature of romance for a whole generation of impressionable working class suburban kids". The anthropomorphic projection may not have been entirely random; [2] swans are believed to take a mate for life, and the graceful white birds might symbolize monogamous felicity. [2]

  7. White Swan - Wikipedia

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    White Swan was born in approximately 1851 [3] though some sources state his birth date was in 1850 or 1852. [3] He had been raised in the traditional manner of his tribe, and would have acquired warrior status in his early teens through deeds of bravery. [4] White Swan married, but his wife died in 1873, before his enlistment as an army scout.

  8. Trois crayons - Wikipedia

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    Trois crayons (French: [tʁwɑ kʁɛjɔ̃]; English: "three pencils") is a drawing technique using three colors of chalk: red , black (a type of schist), and white. The paper used may be a mid-tone such as grey, blue, or tan. [ 1 ]

  9. The Threatened Swan - Wikipedia

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    The Threatened Swan (Dutch: De bedreigde zwaan) [1] is an oil painting of a mute swan made around 1650 by Dutch Golden Age painter Jan Asselijn. The work is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. [1] It is 144 centimetres (57 in) high and 171 centimetres (67 in) wide.