Johann Friedrich Volkart, Naturkundliches Blatt, "Papilion. europ. (Europäische Schmetterlinge)"
Kupferstecher und Illustrator (1750 - 1812 Nürnberg), kolorierter Kupferstich/Büttenpapier, unten rechts in der Platte signiert, um 1777, bezeichnet, hochfein kolorierte Darstellung von fünf bei uns heimischen Schmetterlingen, darunter der bekannte Apollo-Falter, wohl aus: Johann Christoph Esper, Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen, Erlangen 1777 and 1801, hier aus Band I, Tafel CXII, guter Zustand, eine minimale Verfärbung oben rechts, Darstellung 22 x 17 cm (HxB), Passepartout, Gesamtmaß 34 x 26 cm (HxB)
Butterflies, coloured copperplate engraving on laid paper, around 1777, signed in the plate bottom right, from Esper's Butterflies, vol. I, pl. CXII, good condition, one small spot top right, fine colouring, mounted
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