EditorialDeath's head, bee tiger or jasmine hawk-moth, Acherontia atropos, with caterpillar on a jasmine branch and flower, Jasminum officinale. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from "The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths...
EditorialThe Fates (Atropos) - detail.The figure on the right,"Morta", cuts the thread of human life with her scissors. One of the "black paintings" from the Quinta del Sordo, Goya's house. 1819-1823 Canvas, 123 x 266 cm Cat.757.
EditorialAfrican death's head hawkmoth and larva, Acherontia atropos 1,2, and oleander hawk-moth, Daphnis nerii 3. Sphinx tete de mort, chenille, Sphinx du laurier-rose. Handcoloured lithograph from Musee du Naturaliste dedie a la Jeunesse, Histoire des Papillo...
EditorialButterflies and caterpillars in Central Europe 5, Acherontia Atropos, Sphinx Convolvuli, Sphinx Ligustri, Plate XIII, after p. 48, Deuchert, Heinrich (del. ad. nat.); Slocombe, A. (del. ad nat.), 1893, Max Korb; Heinrich Deuchert; A. Slocombe: Die Schm...
EditorialTriumph of fame about death Petrarch (series title), Tapestry with the Triumph of fame over death, the fourth piece in a series of six with the Triumphs of Petrarch., Trionfo della Fama ' ' Triumphus Famae ', 'Carro della Fama' (Ripa), Atropos, usually...
EditorialVipera atropos, Print, The berg adder (Bitis atropos) is a small, venomous viper species endemic to mountainous regions in southern Africa. No subspecies are currently recognized., 1700-1880.
EditorialSpatangus atropos, Print, Spatangus is a genus of heart urchins in the Spatangidae family. The genus is synonymous with the previously recognised genera Prospatangus Lambert, 1902 and Spatagus. There are nine recognised species. The type species is Spa...
EditorialVipera atropos, Print, The berg adder (Bitis atropos) is a small, venomous viper species endemic to mountainous regions in southern Africa. No subspecies are currently recognized., head.
EditorialCaranx atropus, Print, The cleftbelly trevally (Atropus atropos) (also known as the cleftbelly kingfish, Kuweh trevally and thin crevalle) is a species of tropical marine fish of the jack family, Carangidae. The species inhabits coastal waters througho...
EditorialAtropos, one of the Greek Fates or Moirai, shown holding scissors to the thread of life. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in...
EditorialClotho, Lachesis and Atropos, the Greek Fates or Moirai. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in Prints, or Figures of Fabled Go...
EditorialLancehead, Bothrops atrox 1, Ceylon pit viper, Trimeresurus trigonocephalus 2 and berg adder, Bitis atropos 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Plee Jr. after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural Histor...
EditorialBitis atropos (Berg adder). Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to). Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786. Measurements: h 660 mm ? w 480 mm; h 266 mm ? w 424 mm; h 222 mm ? w 406 mm.
EditorialLancehead, Bothrops atrox 1, Ceylon pit viper, Trimeresurus trigonocephalus 2 and berg adder, Bitis atropos 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Plee Jr. after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural Histor...
EditorialDeath's Head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, and oak hawkmoth, Marumba quercus. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Natu...
EditorialDeath's head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, moth, caterpillar and pupa (Jasmine sphinx, Sphinx atropos). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalis...
EditorialDeath's Head hawk moth, Acherontia atropos. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842.
EditorialDeath's head hawk-moth, Acherontia atropos 1, and eyed hawk-moth, Smerinthus ocellatus 2, moth, caterpillar and pupa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802.
EditorialDeath's head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, six-spot burnet, Zygaena filipendulae, and nine-spotted moth, Amata phegea. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles d'Orbigny's "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Natu...
EditorialAtropos, one of the Greek Fates or Moirai, shown holding scissors to the thread of life. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in...
EditorialDeath's head, bee tiger or jasmine hawk-moth, Acherontia atropos, with caterpillar on a jasmine branch and flower, Jasminum officinale. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from "The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths...
EditorialClotho, Lachesis and Atropos, the Greek Fates or Moirai. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in Prints, or Figures of Fabled Go...
EditorialEsfinge de la calavera o Esfinge de la muerte (Acherontia atropos), especie de lepid?ptero ditrisio de la familia Sphingidae. Su nombre com?n alude al dibujo que tiene en el dorso del t?rax y que se asemeja a una calavera humana. Museum fur Naturkunde ...
EditorialThe Fates (Atropos) - detail.The figure on the right,"Morta", cuts the thread of human life with her scissors. One of the "black paintings" from the Quinta del Sordo, Goya's house. 1819-1823 Canvas, 123 x 266 cm Cat.757.