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Lot 5246:
Orange-tip, Bath white & wood-white by Humphreys 1841
This original hand-coloured lithograph is from British Butterflies and their Transformations, arranged and illustrated by H.N. Humphreys, with descriptions by J. O. Westwood. Published in London 1841.
The print illustrates the following butterfly species, including their caterpillar and chrysalis, and featured plants:
1. Euchloe Cardamines (the orange-tip Butterfly), male. 2. The female. 3. The female, showing the under side. 4. The Caterpillar. 5. The Chrysalis. 6. Pieris Daplidice (the Bath white B.), male. 7. The female. 8. The male, showing the under side. 9. The Caterpillar. 10. The Chrysalis. 11. Leptoria Candida (the wood-white B.) 12, The Caterpillar. 13. The Chrysalis. 14. Reseda lutea (base Rocket, or wild Mignonette). 15. Cardamine pratensis (common meadow Ladies’ Smock). 16. Lathyrus pratensis (meadow Vetchling).
Henry Noel Humphreys (1810–1879), was a British illustrator, naturalist, entomologist, and numismatist. Humphreys, who studied medieval manuscripts in Italy as a young man, became an accomplished scholar in numerous subjects.
Size: 8.25in x 10.5in (21cm x 26.6cm).
Condition: Excellent
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