Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10847

    ‘Beetles in a flood’

    Date
    c.1896
    Creator - Organisation
    Object type
    Library reference
    51310
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 225mm
    width (print): 165mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Composite study of varieties of coleoptera reaching high points on twigs, rocks and leaves in a flooded rural landscape.

    Plate facing p.127 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.6 (Frederick Warne, London 1896).

    Not signed or inscribed by artist or printer. Title appears below the image: ‘BEETLES IN A FLOOD’.

    Richard Lydekker (1849-1915) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894.
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