Moths (Lepidoptera-Heterocera, Plate 050) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 newark high-key yellows against cooler greens

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Moths (Lepidoptera-Heterocera, Plate 050) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 newark high-key yellows against cooler greensFrederick DuCane Godmans Insecta Lepidoptera Heterocera Pl. 052 (1879) captures the Victorian passion for natural history at its most exacting and elegant. Created during an era when scientific illustration was indispensable to taxonomy, this entomological plate focuses on moths (Lepidoptera, historically grouped as Heterocera), rendered with the clarity and restraint needed for identification. Godmanan English naturalist, collector, and meticulous