Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11106

    Nettle-tree butterfly

    Date
    1792
    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 Nettle-tree butterfly, Libythea celtis (here styled Papilio celtis). Five figures showing the adult insects.

    Plate 8 from Johann Kaspar Füssli [also spelt Fuessly], 'Archiv der insectengeschichte'…1791-1795.

    Inscribed in ink above: ‘tab: 8’. Not inscribed by the printmaker.

    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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