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Mourning Dove –
Plate Reference #201
In this painting Audubon attempted, as he wrote, to give “a faithful
representation of two gentle pairs of Turtles (doves) as ever cooed their
loves in the great woods. I have placed them on a branch of Stuartia, which
you see ornamented with a profusion of white blossoms, emblematic of purity
and chastity”. The painting was probably done in 1825 in Louisiana. The pair
of birds at bottom was apparently done first; the topmost bird may have been
a last addition Audubon made to the painting, since the limb on which it
sits is not connected to the branch on which its mate is perched. The
silky-camellia, or Virginia-Stuartia, is a member of the tea family.
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