Little Blue Butterflies. Lampides, Cupido and Polyommatus. Kirby c1897.

by W.F. Kirby

Lampides boeticus, Cupido argiades, Polyommatus icarus Butterflies c1897.

Lovely little lithograph printed in colour by Wyman and Sons Ltd for A Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera by W.F. Kirby, Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British Museum. Published in London by Edward Lloyd circa 1897 for Lloyd's Natural History.

Size 180 x 120 cm (7 x 4.5 inches)