Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17664

    Stag beetle with insects and spiders

    Date
    1630
    Creator
    Jacob Hoefnagel (1575, Flemish) , Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    40489
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 201mm
    width (print): 300mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    Description
    Entomological studies of insects and spiders arranged around a centrally placed Stag beetle Lucanus cervus with its wings extended. Seventeen insects are shown, with three spiders. The former include a specimen of praying mantis (lower left) and a mole cricket Gryllotalpa (lower right).

    Plate 4 from the collection Diversae insectarum volatilium icones ad vivum accuratissime depictae, by Jacob Hoefnagel (Amsterdam, Nicolao Ioannis Visscher, 1630).

    The plate is numbered, ‘4’, lower right.

    Jacob Hoefnagel (1575-c.1630) Flemish artist and engraver, the son of Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1601) Flemish artist.
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