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Lepidoptera, Sphinx Nechus, Sphinx Polymena
Today: Moths (Sphinx nechus, Sphinx polymena)
Edward Donovan, plate 13
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
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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, Sphinx Nechus, Sphinx Polymena is plate 13 of The Insects of China by Edward Donovan (1798). Today: Moths (Sphinx nechus, Sphinx polymena). 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
