print
- Museum number
- 1934,0709.2.37
- Title
- Object: Insects
- Description
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An arrangement of insects, two at the top of the plate with very long protrusions from their rears; the sheet includes many flies, wasps, and hornets
Etching
- Production date
- 1680-1685 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 196 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For information on the volume see 1934,0709.2.1
Duplicate at Ee,2.60; one of four prints with register numbers 'en série' with the illustrations to Lister's translation of Godartius (Hake 64-77), and depicting similar subject matter; however, these plates are never found in the book, and their original purpose remains unknown; another possible attribution is Richard Gaywood; compare his insect plates in the last book of Robert Walton's View of Creation, casebook 181.c14
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Printed Books in 1934. Former pressmark in Montague House 2.AA*.a.54
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1934,0709.2.37