"Two men with double butterfly nets chase butterflies in a formal garden with box-edged flower-beds set in gravel. One tramples over a bed of tulips to the horror of two ladies who stand in the doorway (right) and an old man in a night-cap who leans f...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1806, by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
Subject (Topic):
Butterfly nets, Butterflies, Flower gardens, and Greenhouses
A drawing of an elaborately decorated frame with scrolls and vines. Centered at the base is a butterfly with spread wings and centered at the top, a nude figure holding an umbrella. On the verso, a light pencil sketch of clouds seen through an oculus ...
A drawing of an elaborately decorated frame with scrolls and vines. Centered at the base is a butterfly with spread wings and centered at the top, a nude figure holding an umbrella. On the verso, a light pencil sketch of clouds seen through an oculus ...
Album of watercolor drawings depicting exotic animals, copied by the artist Ann Rich from the first few parts of the Naturalist’s Pocket Magazine (London, 1798-1802).
"Satire with a coal-man singing while playing on a harp, sporting butterfly wings, admired by fellow coal-men."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1828 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Butterflies, Carts & wagons, Coal, Harps, Singing, People associated with manual labor, and Working class
An elderly antiquarian guides a fashionably dressed young lady and gentleman through a natural history museum, unaware that the gentleman is passing a letter to the lady. In and around the cases are exotic animals, insects, reptiles, and a mummy
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Sept. 20, 1793, by T. Prattent, 46 Cloth Fair, West Smithfield
Leaf 97. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young man leaning against a bank under a tree holds out in his right hand a square frame in which are displayed dead butterflies and moths. In his left hand is a butterfly net. His hat is a large butterfly; writhing caterpillars represent his curle...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Harris, Moses, 1730-approximately 1788
Subject (Topic):
Entomologists, Butterflies, Butterfly nets, Clothing & dress, Dandies, and British
Leaf 97. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young man leaning against a bank under a tree holds out in his right hand a square frame in which are displayed dead butterflies and moths. In his left hand is a butterfly net. His hat is a large butterfly; writhing caterpillars represent his curle...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Harris, Moses, 1730-approximately 1788
Subject (Topic):
Entomologists, Butterflies, Butterfly nets, Clothing & dress, Dandies, and British
