Set of 3 Antique Prints of a Lantern Fly, Cicada and the Eastern Dobsonfly

1861 · Views & Engravings

Set of 3 Antique Prints of a Lantern Fly, Cicada and the Eastern Dobsonfly

Name: Set of 3 Antique Prints of a Lantern Fly, Cicada and the Eastern Dobsonfly
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13214-57, -58, -64
Price: 605 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1861
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 15.3 × 23.4 cm (6 × 9.2 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and soiling. With original protective sheet attached (one missing, residue visible). Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Reference: BG-13214-57, -58, -64

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Three plates of insects from the Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, edited by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny and published in 1861. Each is a hand-colored engraving headed "Dict. Univ. d'Hist. Nat." and "Insectes", with enlarged outline drawings of heads and body parts beside the main figure.

The first plate shows a lantern fly, with wide mottled wings and a pair of large eye-spots on the hindwings, over lettering naming the species. The second is a cicada, drawn from above with dark, red-veined wings spread and a green and black banded abdomen, with enlarged drawings of the underside. The third is the eastern dobsonfly, lettered "Corydale cornu (Corydalis cornutus, Linn.)", with its long curved mandibles and large, finely veined wings.

D'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist who identified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's collecting journeys through South America.

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