Moths in general
Date
1850
Creator - Organisation
Benham and Reeve, Printer
After
L M Budgen (British) , Illustrator
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 200mm
width (print): 132mm
width (print): 132mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Moths shown against a moonlit sky and framed by an ivy-clad ruined Gothic window.
All are British species or visitors, including (clockwise from lower left): the Convolvulus hawk-moth Agrius convolvuli; the Puss moth Cerura vinula; the Death’s head hawk-moth Acherontia atropos; the Herald Scoliopteryx libatrix; the Buff-tip Phalera bucephala; the Swallow-tailed moth Ourapteryx sambucaria; the Currant clearwing Synanthedon tipuliformis; the Angle shades Phlogophora meticulosa; the Magpie Abraxas grossulariata; the Bark-clothes moth Tinea corticella; the Emperor moth Saturnia pavonia; the Goat moth Cossus cossus; and the Red underwing Catocala nupta.
Frontispiece of the book Episodes of insect life by Acheta Domestica (pseud., Miss L.M. Budgen], second series (Reeve, Benham and Reeve, London, 1850).
Inscribed below: ‘L.M.B. del. Reeve, Benham & Reeve lith.’ Also below, two lines of verse from Lord Byron’s Siege of Corinth: ‘Remnants of things that have passed away/Fragments of stone reared by creatures of clay’.
Accompanying text described these as: ‘A group of moths – agents and emblems of decay – holding their twilight or nocturnal revels amidst the ruins of a noble structure, of the transition period from early English…’
Miss L.M. Budgen (fl.1850s) British illustrator and popular writer on floriculture and entomology.
All are British species or visitors, including (clockwise from lower left): the Convolvulus hawk-moth Agrius convolvuli; the Puss moth Cerura vinula; the Death’s head hawk-moth Acherontia atropos; the Herald Scoliopteryx libatrix; the Buff-tip Phalera bucephala; the Swallow-tailed moth Ourapteryx sambucaria; the Currant clearwing Synanthedon tipuliformis; the Angle shades Phlogophora meticulosa; the Magpie Abraxas grossulariata; the Bark-clothes moth Tinea corticella; the Emperor moth Saturnia pavonia; the Goat moth Cossus cossus; and the Red underwing Catocala nupta.
Frontispiece of the book Episodes of insect life by Acheta Domestica (pseud., Miss L.M. Budgen], second series (Reeve, Benham and Reeve, London, 1850).
Inscribed below: ‘L.M.B. del. Reeve, Benham & Reeve lith.’ Also below, two lines of verse from Lord Byron’s Siege of Corinth: ‘Remnants of things that have passed away/Fragments of stone reared by creatures of clay’.
Accompanying text described these as: ‘A group of moths – agents and emblems of decay – holding their twilight or nocturnal revels amidst the ruins of a noble structure, of the transition period from early English…’
Miss L.M. Budgen (fl.1850s) British illustrator and popular writer on floriculture and entomology.
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