Butterflies

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Exotic butterflies.

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Artist

Name:
Morin, Heinrich

Illustration

Subject:
Animals
Technique:
Lithograph
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
University of Illinois Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Brehms Tierleben, vol. 9
Author:
Brehm, Alfred Edmund
Publisher:
Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1900
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Description:

Colorful butterflies are flying around against a background of flowers and branches. The depicted species are named as follows, from top to bottom and from left to right, with the current accepted designations mentioned in parentheses:

  • Amblypodia amantes (Arhopala amantes)
  • Ornitophera pompeus var. minos (Troides helena)
  • Morpho cypris
  • Ornitophera priamus var. richmondia (Ornitoptera richmondia)
  • Papilio hector (Papilio hectorides)

The caption reads in the original German: Ausländische Tagfalter.

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