Title: Eight Pigeons (or Doves) in a Farmyard near a Coup, a Dovecote in the Background
Object type: Print
Date: 1654–58
Portfolio: Diversae avium species
Artist:  Wenceslaus Hollar 
Artist bio: Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London
Artist nationality: Bohemian
Artist role: Etcher
Medium: Etching; first state of two
Dimensions: Plate: 5 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. (13.3 × 19.7 cm)
Sheet: 5 3/8 × 7 15/16 in. (13.7 × 20.2 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Doves