EditorialEmblem 44; caterpillar on leaf. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Emblem drawing of a caterpillar eating a spinach-like leaf, and the human chrysalis lying in state on a beautifully scalloped leaf-shell; with legend fro...
EditorialMetamorphosis of a silkworm, from young caterpillar, shedding skin, spinning silk cocoon, chrysalis stage, and emergence as moth. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792. Fried...
EditorialPUMA and global pop superstar, Dua Lipa continue to thrill fans, announcing their first product collaboration a limited-release capsule called Flutur
EditorialScale Pattern, Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), Scale pattern (uroko) was used as a talisman to ward off bad luck since it's originally associated with snakes and butterflies that shed its skin or chrysal...
EditorialPhalaena Aceris. Acer Rubrum (Grey Maple Moth, Red Maple), Plate 93 from James Edward Smith, the 'Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia', London, 1797, Print made by John Harris the elder, 17671832, British, after John Abbot, 17...
EditorialThe great South Sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, [London], 1795, the metamorphosis of Sir Joseph Banks from a caterpillar to a butterfly upon his investiture with the Order of the Bath as a result o...
EditorialThe great South Sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, [London], 1795, the metamorphosis of Sir Joseph Banks from a caterpillar to a butterfly upon his investiture with the Order of the Bath as a result o...
EditorialGrass eggar, Lasiocampa trifolii, male, female, larva, pupa, chrysalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
EditorialMuslin footman, Nudaria mundana, male 1, female 2, and oak eggar moth, Lasiocampa quercifolia, female 3, larva, 4,5, pupa 6, chrysalis 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterling...
EditorialSloe emperor moth, Saturnia spini. Male, female, juvenile and adult larvae, pupa, chrysalis. Phalaena Attacus pavonia media. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildun...
EditorialEmperor moth, Saturnia pavonia, larva, pupa, chrysalis. Pavonia major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
EditorialOdonestis pruni moth, larva, pupa, chrysalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
EditorialFox moth, Macrothylacia rubi, male, female, larva, pupa, chrysalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
EditorialEastern eggar, Eriogaster catax, male, female, larva, pupa, chrysalis. Phalaena catax, Phalaena lentipes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur,...
EditorialMechanitis, Print, Mechanitis is a genus of tigerwing (Ithomiini) butterflies, named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1807. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. It has gained fame due to the metallic appearance of the chrysalis in...
EditorialEmblem 44; caterpillar on leaf. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Emblem drawing of a caterpillar eating a spinach-like leaf, and the human chrysalis lying in state on a beautifully scalloped leaf-shell; with legend fro...
EditorialThe great South Sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, [London], 1795, the metamorphosis of Sir Joseph Banks from a caterpillar to a butterfly upon his investiture with the Order of the Bath as a result o...
EditorialMetamorphosis of a silkworm, from young caterpillar, shedding skin, spinning silk cocoon, chrysalis stage, and emergence as moth. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792. Fried...
EditorialElephant hawk moth, Deilephila elpenor, white china mark moth, Cataclysta lemnata. An Ichneumon lentorius wasp (i) lays its eggs in the hawkmoth larva which hatches from the chrysalis (k). Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris f...
EditorialTHE BRAZILIAN SILK WORM EXHIBIT, PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITION, 1.?(a) The Moth laying Eggs ; (b) Silk-worm one day old ; (c) Silk-worm three days old ; (d) Silk-worm seven days old. 2 ?Silk-worm Spinning a Cocoon. 3.?Cocoons. 4.?Chrysalis. 5.?Moths emerging...
EditorialThe great South Sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, [London], 1795, the metamorphosis of Sir Joseph Banks from a caterpillar to a butterfly upon his investiture with the Order of the Bath as a result o...