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Image number: RS.9381
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Polish cochineal insects
Date
1764
Creator
James Mynde (1710, British) , Printmaker
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 166mm
width (drawing): 209mm
width (drawing): 209mm
Subject
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Description
Figures of insects and eggs observed in Poland, Polish cochineal [Porphyrophora polonica] or carmine scales. Inscribed in pencil with instructions to printers. Two sets of drawings mounted on a single backing sheet.
Plate 10 from the paper “Further account of the Polish cochineal...”, by Nathaniel Matthew Wolfe (1724-1784), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.54 (1764) pp.95-98.
Plate 10 from the paper “Further account of the Polish cochineal...”, by Nathaniel Matthew Wolfe (1724-1784), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.54 (1764) pp.95-98.
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