Malayan Eggfly and Blue Spotted Crow
Date
1891
Creator
Frederic C Moore (British) , Artist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 214mm
width (painting): 142mm
width (painting): 142mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Entomological studies of the butterfly the Malayan Eggfly, Hypolimnas anamola, mimetic female (figure 14) and the Blue Spotted Crow Euploea singapura (not numbered or coloured version of figure 15). Showing a single upper surface of each of the insects’ wings.
Plate 7 from the manuscript version of the paper “On the mimetic forms of certain butterflies of the genus Hypolimnas” by Charles Swinhoe, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.53 (1893), pp.321-325.
Inscribed below in pencil ‘Hyp. Anomala Sumatra. Isamia singapura’. Signed in ink lower left: ‘F.C.Moore del/91’.
Colonel Charles Swinhoe (1838-1923), British lepidopterist, was a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He collaborated with the entomologist and artist Frederic Moore (1830-1907) on the volumes comprising Lepidoptera Indica (London, Lovell Reeve & Co., 1890-1913). Moore’s son, Frederic C. Moore, contributed plates to those volumes.
Plate 7 from the manuscript version of the paper “On the mimetic forms of certain butterflies of the genus Hypolimnas” by Charles Swinhoe, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.53 (1893), pp.321-325.
Inscribed below in pencil ‘Hyp. Anomala Sumatra. Isamia singapura’. Signed in ink lower left: ‘F.C.Moore del/91’.
Colonel Charles Swinhoe (1838-1923), British lepidopterist, was a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He collaborated with the entomologist and artist Frederic Moore (1830-1907) on the volumes comprising Lepidoptera Indica (London, Lovell Reeve & Co., 1890-1913). Moore’s son, Frederic C. Moore, contributed plates to those volumes.
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