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Image number: RS.9382
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Cicadas
Date
1763
Creator
James Mynde (1710, British) , Printmaker
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height (painting): 209mm
width (painting): 151mm
width (painting): 151mm
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Description
Studies of two species of cicadas from North America from specimens described by Peter Collinson FRS (1694-1768) and apparently sent to him by John Bartram FRS (1699-1777). Seven figures showing mature and immature insects with a wooden branch into which eggs were laid.
Plate 8 for the paper “Some observations on the cicada of North America...”, by Peter Collinson, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.54 (1764) pp.65-68.
Plate 8 for the paper “Some observations on the cicada of North America...”, by Peter Collinson, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.54 (1764) pp.65-68.
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