Fulton’s Book of Piegons

My paintings for The Aviary exhibition are based, in part, on these images from Fulton’s Book of Pigeons. Published in London in 1880, it is a work which attempts to document all the varieties of fancy pigeons then extant. Fancy pigeons are birds that are specially bred for particular aspects of size, shape, colour, and behaviour.

  • Yellow-pied Pouter
  • Red-pied Pouter
  • Black-pied Pouter
  • Red & Yellow Barbs
  • Red & Yellow Jacobins
  • Jacobins
  • Short-faced Baldheads
  • Chequered Antwerps
  • Short-faced Antwerps
  • Turbits
  • Turbits
  • Homing Pigeons
  • Satinettes
  • Scotch Fantails
  • Englsih Fantails
  • Pigmy Pouters
  • Flying Tumblers
  • Flying Tumblers
  • Dragoons
  • Dragoons
  • Red, White & Yellow Dragoons
  • Black & Dun Barbs
  • Short-faced Tumblers
  • Almond Tumblers
  • Almond Tumblers
  • Blue Carrier Pigeon
  • Black Carrier Pigeon
  • Blue-pied Pouter
  • White Carrier Pigeon