Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11101

    High brown fritillary

    Date
    1791
    Creator
    Johann Rudolf Schellenburg (1740 - 1806, Swiss) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN 26212
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 221mm
    width (print): 175mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    Description
    Entomological studies of the High brown fritillary Argynnis addipe (here styled Papilio adippe L.). Five figures showing the developmental stages (caterpillar, pupa and butterfly) with and underwing view (figure 5) of a female insect.

    Plate 1 from Johann Kaspar Füssli [also spelt Fuessly], 'Archiv der insectengeschichte'…1791-1795.

    Inscribed above in ink: ‘Tab: 1’; and printed below left: ‘J.R.Schellenberg del. & Sculp.’.

    Johann Kaspar Füssli (1743-1786) entomologist was the brother of the well-known artist Henry Fuseli (1745-1825), born Johann Heinrich Füssli.

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