A wasp and locust found in Jamaica
Date
1764
Creator
Andrew Peter Dupont, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p85
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 208mm
width (paper): 201mm
width (paper): 201mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A Jamaican wasp and locust drawn on a tromp l'oeil effect paper and signed by Andrew Peter Dupont (d. 1770). The inscriptions below, 'Felton' in pencil and 'VI' in pen, tally with the fact that it was published as tab. 6 in Samuel Felton, 'An account of a singular species of wasp and locust', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 54 (1764), pp. 53-56 (with the lettering: 'A P Dupont pinx[i]t and J. Mynde sc[ulpsit]').
Transcription
Signed at the bottom: A.P.Dupont Pinx:
in pencil: Felton in pen VI. Bottom right: 10 1/4 by 6
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
in pencil: Felton in pen VI. Bottom right: 10 1/4 by 6
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Samuel Felton, 'An account of a singular species of wasp and locust', Phil. Trans., vol. 54 (1764), pp. 53-56, tab. 6, signed 'A P Dupont pinxt and J. Mynde sc'.
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