[Gold moth, larva and caterpillar] [art original].

Description

Title: [Gold moth, larva and caterpillar] [art original].
Creator: Marshal, Alexander, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1682]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Watercolor drawing depicting a green caterpillar at top, a pupa in the middle, and a gold-colored moth at bottom
Description: Title from local catalog card.
Attributed to Alexander Marshal based on association with a similar drawing labelled "Marshall" in manuscript. For other drawings by Marshal of moths and caterpillars, see: Collection 941. Alexander Marshal Insect Watercolors. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Place and date of production based on the artist's country of residence and death date.
Small remnant on verso of a trimmed manuscript annotation in the artist's hand.
Formerly laid in with three other drawings at page 51 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Matted together with three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
Provenance: Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 6.8 x 5 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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Citation: Alexander Marshal. Gold Moth, Larva and Caterpillar. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.