IMAGE
Abbot, John, 1751-1840 :Pale brown bombyx [Between 1816 and 1818]
- Date
- 1816 - 1818
- Reference
- E-272-f-045
- Description
Two small moths with brown and yellow colouring, shown with pupa and caterpillar on a flowering vine. The artist comments ' Found several of the caterpillars feeing on the cynanchum macrophyllum, in a swamp near Savannah [Georgia] being the first & only ones I have met with, spun up 12 June bred 29th'.
Exhibited in 'Wild Things: Botanical and Zoological Art from the Alexander Turnbull Library' exhibition, National Library Gallery, 22 November 1998 - 21 March 1999.
Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 45 [in pencil]; Verso - Cynanchum macrophyllum
See: Parkinson, P.G. in Turnbull Library record, vol 11 no 1 May 1978.
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 344 x 245 mm
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- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?] / Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Scientific illustrations, Watercolour on cream wove paper 344 x 245 mm, Orientation: Vertical image, Watermark: No watermark.
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