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Image number: RS.9384
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Cricket and two varieties of mantis
Date
April 1704
Creator
Johannes Philippus Breynius (1680 - 1764, German) , Physician
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 154mm
width (painting): 111mm
width (painting): 111mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Studies of insects observed in Spain, including a cricket and mantises, with one pupa detail and two drawings of larvae. Not signed.
Plate 1 for the paper “Epsitola...plantis & insectis quibusdam rariorbus in Hispania observatis”, by Johann Philipp Breyne, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.24 (1704-1705) pp.2045-2055.
Plate 1 for the paper “Epsitola...plantis & insectis quibusdam rariorbus in Hispania observatis”, by Johann Philipp Breyne, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.24 (1704-1705) pp.2045-2055.
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