Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17670

    Stag beetle with insects

    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 arranged around a centrally placed Stag beetle Lucanus cervus. Twenty insects are shown, including a dragonfly (lower left), wasps, moths and butterflies.

    Plate 10 from the collection Diversae insectarum volatilium icones ad vivum accuratissime depictae, by Jacob Hoefnagel (Amsterdam, Nicolao Ioannis Visscher, 1630).

    The plate is numbered, ‘10’, lower right.

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