Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9383
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Wasp and locust
Date
1763-1764
Creator
A Dupont, Artist
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 279mm
width (painting): 202mm
width (painting): 202mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Side views of insects observed in Jamaica: the wasp “Crinita” and what the author terms a locust, “Rhombea cicada” [Phyllotettix rhombeus?]. Framed as if on individual sheets of paper and signed below “A. Dupont pinxt. Felton VI”.
Plate 6 for the paper “An account of a singular species of wasp and locust”, by Samuel Felton, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.54 (1764) pp.53-56.
Plate 6 for the paper “An account of a singular species of wasp and locust”, by Samuel Felton, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.54 (1764) pp.53-56.
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