Spectacular Butterflies. Catagramma, Apatua, Ornithopter, Heliconia, Epicalia. Engraved c1860.

by Lowry, Joseph Wilson

Spectacularly hand-coloured steel-engraved antique prints of butterflies.
1. Catagramma excelsior - Hewitson’s Amazon Butterfly, 1a. under side. 2. Apatura Laura - Drury’s Emperor Butterfly. 3. Ornithopter Brookeana - Brooke’s Borneo Butterfly (male). 4. Heliconia Hermathoena – Hermathena Longwing. 5. Heliconia Hecalesia – Five-spotted Longwing. Epicalia Penthia – Macgillivray’s Louisiade. 7. Calydua Calamisa.

Original hand-coloured steel engraving by J.W. Lowry from a drawing by Nathaniel J. Holms, with contemporary hand-colour, for The Museum of Natural History published c1860 by William Mackenzie of Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and New York. Joseph Wilson Lowry (1803-1879) was an English engraver who was trained by his father, engraver Wilson Lowry (1762-1824). J.W. Lowry exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829 and 1830.

Page size is 270 x 180mm (10 5/8 x 7 inches). (paper slightly age-soiled)