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Half-price Humphreys Butterflies Transformations antique hand-coloured engraving c1841.

Half-price Humphreys Butterflies Transformations antique hand-coloured engraving c1841.

by Humphreys, H.N.

Antique print illustrating Lifecycle Transformation of Butterflies c1841.

Original  hand-coloured engraving arranged and illustrated by H.N. Humphreys Esq., with characters and descriptions by J. O. Westwood, Esq. F.L.S. (secretary of the Entomological Society), for British Butterflies and their Transformations published in London c1841.

Humphreys (1810-1879), was a British naturalist, entomologist, illustrator - and numismatist. His presentation of the butterflies with caterpillar and chrysalis, impressed curators at the British Museum, who adopted this method of illustrating the transformation lifecycle of insects. Humphreys lovely engravings surely echo the exquisite medieval manuscripts he studied in Italy when a young man.

Humphreys wrote: “The study of natural history is the learning of the characters with which the wonderful story of nature is written.. cannot conceive a more pleasing and natural introduction to its general study than entomology, of which I think the division of Lepidoptera.. the most easy and attractive section.  H. N. Humphreys, Esq.”

This page is slightly creased at top and has faint soiling around edge of page. Size is 270 x 205mm (10 5/8 x 8 inches).

Stock Number: apHNH61Price: $30.00

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