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Lepidoptera – Papilio Menetho

Today: Butterfly (Papilio menetho)

Edward Donovan, plate 10

From The Insects of India

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

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A facsimile of the original sheet
  • Photographed from an original copy of The Insects of India.
  • 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 Menetho is plate 10 of The Insects of India by Edward Donovan (1800). Today: Butterfly (Papilio menetho). This facsimile is made from the original and printed at the size of the original sheet, 12 × 14¼ in (30.5 × 36.5 cm).

About the original

Edward Donovan (1768-1837), the Anglo-Irish naturalist and illustrator, published An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India in 1800, the second of his three books on the insects of China, India and New Holland: hand-coloured engravings of species that had not been illustrated before, set against plants and flowers.

Among the plates are the lantern fly Fulgora pyrorhynchus and the swallowtails Papilio priamus and Papilio ulysses.

Title
The Insects of India
Published
1800
In our collection
19 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.

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