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Lepidoptera – Papilio Jacintha

Today: Butterfly (Papilio jacintha)

Edward Donovan, plate 22

From The Insects of China

The print

Technique
Facsimile giclée
Sheet
12 × 14¼ in, original size
Paper
White etching paper, 270 g/m²
Ink
Archival ink
Edition
Limited to 250 prints

$165

Limited edition of 250

€150 incl. VAT in the EU

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Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.

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A facsimile of the original sheet
  • Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of The Insects of China, Haarlem.
  • Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
  • Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.

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About this plate

Lepidoptera – Papilio Jacintha is plate 22 of The Insects of China by Edward Donovan (1798). Today: Butterfly (Papilio jacintha). This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 12 × 14¼ in (30.5 × 36.5 cm).

About the original

Edward Donovan (1768-1837), an Anglo-Irish naturalist and illustrator who later founded the London Museum and Institute of Natural History, published An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China in 1798: 50 hand-coloured engravings of butterflies, moths, lantern flies and other insects.

Donovan chose species that had not been illustrated before and set them against plants and flowers. It is the first of his three books on the insects of China, India and New Holland.

Title
The Insects of China
Published
1798
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
In our collection
23 prints
Gies Pluim at a table in the Teylers Museum library with plates from The Birds of America
Founder Gies Pluim in the library of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, where the original is kept.

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