Exotic Butterflies, Plate CCLXIV.

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• ARTIST: Pieter Cramer

• PUBLISHER: Published in Amsterdam by S. J. Baalde and N. T. Gravius.

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

  DATE: c. 1778

• EDITION SIZE: Paper size 11 3/4 x 9 1/4" (30.0 x 23.5 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: From Pieter Cramer’s De Uitlandsche Kapellen…/Papillons Exotiques (1775–1782), this plate depicts Auratus, Martbesia, Vidua, Filia, Pueritia, Neptis, and Nobilitella. Cramer, a Dutch wool merchant and entomologist, commissioned Gerrit Wartenaar Lambertz to render his extensive collection of butterflies and moths in finely detailed drawings, later engraved and hand colored. As one of the earliest illustrated surveys of lepidoptera from Asia, Africa, and the Americas, the series set new standards for scientific precision and artistic quality in 18th-century natural history publishing.

• ADDITIONAL INFO: This piece is in a 10 x 13 inch archival mylar for handling.

• CONDITION: Good condition with original color.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Natural History - Animals & Insects , Butterflies & Moths