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Image number: RS.10005
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‘The Worm-eater, and the Goat-Beetle’
Date
1758
Creator
George Edwards (1694 - 1773, British) , Ornithologist
Object type
Library reference
38029
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 288mm
width (print): 220mm
width (print): 220mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological studies of the North American bird the Worm-eating warbler Helmitheros vermivorum and a wood-boring beetle, showing damage to a block of wood.
Plate 305 from chapter 95 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The author describes the bird and insect within the text: “This beetle was found by a Cooper in London, on his cleaving a piece of Virginia oak for pipe-staves. The piece of wood, with the insect living in it, was given to me, in April 1758, by my obliging friend Mr. Joseph Ames, F.R.S....The Worm-eater I received from Mr. William Bartram; who says it is a bird of passage...”
The plate is inscribed: “The Worm-eater from Pensilvania, and the Goat-beetle &c from Virginia boath drawn from life of their natural Size by George Edwards June the 20. AD. 1758.”
Plate 305 from chapter 95 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The author describes the bird and insect within the text: “This beetle was found by a Cooper in London, on his cleaving a piece of Virginia oak for pipe-staves. The piece of wood, with the insect living in it, was given to me, in April 1758, by my obliging friend Mr. Joseph Ames, F.R.S....The Worm-eater I received from Mr. William Bartram; who says it is a bird of passage...”
The plate is inscribed: “The Worm-eater from Pensilvania, and the Goat-beetle &c from Virginia boath drawn from life of their natural Size by George Edwards June the 20. AD. 1758.”
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