Set of 3 Antique Butterfly Prints Also Showing Caterpillars and Pupae, 1810

€ 250

One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.

Date: 1810
Sheet size: 24.5 × 18.4 cm (9.6 × 7.2 in)
Condition: Fair
Reference: BG-13285-23, BG-13285-19, BG-13285-24

Condition

Shows age-related toning and soiling. Passepartouts / matting included. Please study images carefully.

About this sheet

Set of 3 antique butterfly prints. Most likely originating from an edition of 'Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Insekten' by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm. Published circa 1810.

Passepartouts / matting included.

Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (16 October 1758 Augsburg - 12 December 1811 Augsburg) was a Protestant pastor and natural history writer, probably best known for his monumental "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" ("Wilhelm's Discourses on Natural History").