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Purple emperor, Apatura iris 1, with wing scale D and wing E, and mountain apollo, Parnassius apollo 2, butterfly and caterpillar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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Purple emperor, Apatura iris 1, with wing scale D and wing E, and mountain apollo, Parnassius apollo 2, butterfly and caterpillar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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APOLLO

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4844 x 5893 px | 81.7 MB

Print size:

41.0 x 49.9 cm | 16.1 x 19.6 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

APATURA IRIS • APOLLO • BILDERBUCH FUR KINDER • BUTTERFLY • CATERPILLAR • CATERPILLARS • COPPERPLATE • EDUCATIONAL • ENCYCLOPEDIA • ENGRAVED • ENGRAVING (ARTWORK) • ENGRAVING • ENGRAVING. • ENGRAVINGS • ETCHING • FRIEDRICH JOHANN BERTUCH • GERMAN • GERMANS • HANDCOLOURED • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • LARVA • MOUNTAIN APOLLO • NATURAL HISTORY • NATURAL SCIENCES • NATURE STUDY • PAPILIO EQUES HELICONIUS APOLLO • PAPILIO NYMPHALIS GEMMATA IRIS • PARNASSIUS APOLLO • PICTURE BOOK FOR CHILDREN • PRINT • PUBLISHER • PURPLE EMPEROR • SCALE • WEIMAR • WING