Framed and on the wall
Frame and rooms are illustrations of how the print could look; the description says what is included.
Set of 3 Antique Prints of a Lantern Fly, Cicada and the Eastern Dobsonfly
$610 (£460, €540)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- Not stated
- Size
- 6 × 9.2 in (15.3 × 23.4 cm)
- Condition
- Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and soiling. With original protective sheet attached (one missing, residue visible). Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
- Section
- Insects and butterflies
- Reference
- f_34632412
Three plates of insects from the Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, edited by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny and published in 1861. Each is a hand-colored engraving headed "Dict. Univ. d'Hist. Nat." and "Insectes", with enlarged outline drawings of heads and body parts beside the main figure.
The first plate shows a lantern fly, with wide mottled wings and a pair of large eye-spots on the hindwings, over lettering naming the species. The second is a cicada, drawn from above with dark, red-veined wings spread and a green and black banded abdomen, with enlarged drawings of the underside. The third is the eastern dobsonfly, lettered "Corydale cornu (Corydalis cornutus, Linn.)", with its long curved mandibles and large, finely veined wings.
D'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist who identified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's collecting journeys through South America.
