IMAGE
Schellenberg, Johann Rudolph, 1740-1806: Sphinx Koechlini [Hyles livornica (Striped hawk-moth)]
- Date
- 1785
- By
- Füssli, Johann Caspar, 1743-1786; Schellenberg, Johann Rudolph, 1740-1806; Swainson, William, 1789-1855
- Reference
- E-101-q-003
- Description
Hand-coloured plate by Johann Rudolph Schellenberg, from 'Archiv der Insectengeschichte', edited by Johann Caspar Fuessli, published by the editor in Zurich and Heinrich Steiner in Winterthur, 1785. Originally published as Plate 33, with Figures 1 to 5, to accompany section with the title 'Beytrag zu der Geschichte des Sphinx Koechlini', by Johann Caspar Fueßly [Fuessli], pages 15-17, in "Sechster [sic] Heft" - part 6.
Plate depicts four caterpillars and one pupa, including a caterpillar eating the leaf of a grape vine.
Title supplied by Library.
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, on cream laid paper, 124 x 141 mm.
Provenance: Collection of William Swainson.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Various Artists: [Miscellaneous collection of lithographs and engravings showing the metamorphosis of moths, ca 1800]
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Lithographs, Scientific illustrations, Works of art, Lithograph, hand-coloured, on cream laid paper, 124 x 141 mm.
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