Beetle, Larva, Pupa: Scarinacicornis Scarabaeus. Shaw's Natural History c1805

by Shaw, George

Scarab Beetles Antique Print from George Shaw's Entomology.

Original copperplate engravings  by the eminent natural history illustrator Mr Griffiths and his assistants for "Zoology, or Systematic Natural History" by George Shaw M.D.F.R.S. (1751-1813), to illustrate Zoological Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution in London by George Shaw. Published by George Kearsley c1805 (with later fine hand-colour.

After receiving a master's degree in 1772 from Magdalen College Oxford, Shaw began as a medical practitioner, but became assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University from 1786. George Shaw co-founded the Linnaean Society in 1788 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789. In 1791 he became assistant keeper of the Natural History Department of the British Museum and became Keeper in 1806.

The size of this antique print is 23 x 13 cm (9 x 5 inches).