Typical Butterflies. Pretty 19th century chromolithograph c1896.

$130.00

Antique print of pretty butterflies on grey background.

A. Orange Scallop Wing, Cethosia biblis (male). B. Royal Swallow Tail, Tinopalpus imperialis (male). C. Black-tipped Sulphur Dercas verhuelli. D. Swinhoe's Tortoiseshell, Junonia swinhoei. E. Common Blue, Lycoena alexis (male). F. Mango Admiral, Euthalia lubentina. G. Silver-studded Skipper, Hesperia comma. H. Sooty-veined Porcelain, Cyrestis thyodamas. I. Duke of Burgundy, Nemeobius lucina. J. Harris's Snowflake, Fuploea Harrisii (female). is printed at the base of the butterflies outlined on the accompanying tissue-guard.

Butterflies chromolithograph after the original drawn from nature for Edmund Brehm's Illustrirtes Tierleben (Illustratee Life of Animals) published in Leipzig between 1864 and 1869. This colour-printed lithograph was published in 1896 for Richard Lydekker's The royal Natural History published between 1894 and 1896 by Frederick Warne & Co. of London & New York.

Page 260 x 175mm (10.1/4 x 6.7/8 inches). Image size 215 x 135mm (8.1/2 x 5.1/4 inches)