IMAGE
Abbot, John, 1751-1840 :Green gryllus. [Between 1816 and 1818]
- Date
- 1816 - 1818
- Reference
- E-272-f-006
- Description
Three green grasshoppers on a pink and white convolvulus in flower and leaf. One grasshopper shown in flight. According to the artist's notes 'Feeds on the blossoms of the convolvulus panduratus ..." The text for the 1983 reproduction of this work reads: "The insect is one of the group of Long Horned Grasshoppers or Katydids. Widespread and common, they are well camouflaged on the plants on which they live. The cricket is shown here on Man-root (Ipomoea pandurata) ... a common perennial prostrate vine of dry woodlands and roadsides, fencerows and old fields of the United States. The large starch-filled root of the Man-root my weight five kilograms or more."
Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print in 1983.
Exhibited in 'Wild Things: Botanical and Zoological Art from the Alexander Turnbull Library' exhibition, National Library Gallery, 22 November 1998 - 21 March 1999.
Other Titles - Amblycorypha sp. Bush cricket.
Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 6 [in pencil]; Verso - Convulvulus panduratus [in pencil]
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 342 x 248 mm
- Access restrictions
- 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 342 x 248 mm, Orientation: Vertical image, Watermark: No watermark.
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