print
- Museum number
- 2AA+,a.67.69
- Title
- Series: Diversae insectarum volatilium
- Description
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An arrangement of insects and arachnids, with a large moth (placed on a diagonal) at centre, a spider in a web at top right, and a scorpion at lower right; after Joris Hoefnagel
Engraving
- Production date
- 1630
- Dimensions
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Height: 132 millimetres
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Width: 190 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For information on the volume see 2AA+,a.67.1. For another impression see 2AA+,a.49.55.
The moth at centre is a copy in reverse from Joris Hoefnagel's Archetypa studiaque (1592), part 1, plate 12; the spider in a web from part 2, plate 3, etc.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2AA+,a.67.69
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1972,U.31.9