Dorippus Tiger and Danaid Eggfly
Date
1891
Creator
Frederic C Moore (British) , Artist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 213mm
width (painting): 145mm
width (painting): 145mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Entomological studies of the DorippusTiger butterfly Danaus dorippus (figure 5), a species from Africa and Aden; and the female of the mimic Danaid Eggfly Hypolimnas misippus (figure 6). Showing a single upper surface of each of the insects’ wings.
Plate 3 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 ink, ‘H. misippus female. D. dorippus’. Signed lower left: ‘F.C.Moore del. Aug.1891’.
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 3 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 ink, ‘H. misippus female. D. dorippus’. Signed lower left: ‘F.C.Moore del. Aug.1891’.
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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