Butterfly Collection (#3)

Happy Pentecost (colour litho)
981968 Happy Pentecost (colour litho) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Happy Pentecost. German greetings card.); Look and Learn / Valerie Jackson Harris Collection

Lesser puss moth, Cerura erminea
Lesser puss moth or feline, Cerura erminea. Phalaena erminea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach

Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) resting on Devil's bit scabious (Succisa pratensis), Volehouse Farm, Devon, UK. August

La Vie Parisienne Magazine Cover, 1932. Artist: Brunelleschi, Umberto (1879-1949)
La Vie Parisienne Magazine Cover, 1932. From a private collection

Green hairstreak butterfly (Callophrys rubi) on hawthorn leaf, Wiltshire, England, UK, April

Designs for a wall hanging with Bats and Poppies, pub. 1897. Creator: Maurice Pillard Verneuil
Designs for a wall hanging with Bats and Poppies, and wallpaper with Butterflies and Bluebells, from L Animal dans la Decoration by Maurice Pillard Verneuil, pub. 1897 (colour lithograph)

Bouquet of flowers in a stone niche, 1618, by Ambrosius Boss
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621). Dutch painter. Bouquet of flowers in a stone niche, 1618. National Museum of Art. Copenhagen. Denmark

Swallowtail Butterflies Date: 1868

Large Copper Butterflies Date: 1868

Scene from the opera, Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini: Cio Cio Sans uncle, the Bonze, interrupts her marriage ceremony to Lieutenant Colonel F. B

The Quinlan Opera Company
Promotional postcard for The Quinlan Opera Company. Billed as The Greatest Touring Company Ever Organized. Touring to the Royal Hippodrome, Liverpool, 2nd October 1911 Figures, left to right

Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
Lightly Textured image of a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) butterfly pollinating a spring flower bud

Still Life with Flowers (oil on canvas)
XKH148983 Still Life with Flowers (oil on canvas) by Ruysch, Rachel (1664-1750); 35.5x27.2 cm; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Dutch, out of copyright

Flower Still Life on a marble ledge, 1800-01 (oil on canvas)
BAL142780 Flower Still Life on a marble ledge, 1800-01 (oil on canvas) by Dael, Jan Frans van (1764-1840); 61x49.8 cm; Private Collection; Johnny Van Haeften Ltd. London; Belgian, out of copyright

Group of Sulphur Butterflies in the Phoebis family on Dutch Iris

Mountain Blue Swallowtail of Australia, Papilio ulysses

Black Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio polyxenes

Blue Crow Butterfly, Euphoea mulciber subvisaya

Poland-Nature-Butterfly
A peacock butterfly is perched on a Garden Cosmos flower in Popielarze village near Warsaw on July 17, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI

Picture No. 10947841
Marsh Fritillary Butterfly - UK. Date:

Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) see 51935
Bates collections and notebooks are held at the Natural History Museum, London. Bates is best known for his publication Naturalis on the River Amazon (1863) and his work on mimicry

Ananas comosus (pineapple) & Philaethria dido
Pineapple tree (Ananas comosus) with butterfly, caterpillar & crysalis (Philaethria dido). Plate 2 from Metamorphosis Insectorum (1705) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717)

Examples of mimicry among butterflies
Plate from On the lepidoptera of the Amazon Valley. Transactions of the Linnean Society, by H.W. Bates, 1862

Butterfly studies
A plate from a field note book of Rose Monteiro depicting butterfly studies

Ornithoptera alexandrae, Queen Alexandras birdwing butterfly

H. W. Bates illustrated notebook
Plate 7 from a notebook of Henry W. Bates (1825-92) relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Rosa indica (chinensis), China rose
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33. Illustration entitled Rosier Bengale the hymenee

Large Copper Butterfly - Alps - France
ME-1898 Large Copper Butterfly Alps - France Lycaena dispar batava Johan De Meester Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Common Rose Family: Papilionidae Erawan Nationalpark, Thailand
MAR-422 Common Rose Butterfly Erawan Nationalpark, Thailand Pachliopta aristolochiae Family: Papilionidae Thomas Marent Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

A Comma Butterfly - one of many migrant butterflies to the British Isles, forages on an Aster (A. amelius)
CRH-1045 A Comma Butterfly - one of many migrant butterflies to the British Isles, forages on an Aster (A. amelius). Oxfordshire, England

CLY02014
AUS-236 Australian painted lady butterfly - on Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), New South Wales, Australia Vanessa kershawi Densey Clyne / Auscape / ardea.com Auscape Please note that prints

Swallowtail - on flower wings open 005761
BB-1509 Swallowtail - on flower wings open Papilio machaon Brian Bevan Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Grayling Butterfly
JAB-3375 Grayling Butterfly Hipparchia semele Jack Bailey Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Adonis Blue Butterfly - Female resting
USH-989 Adonis Blue BUTTERFLY - female, with wings open Lysandra bellargus Latin also Polyommatus bellargus Duncan Usher Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Chequered Skipper Butterfly Rare in UK
ROG-11323 Chequered Skipper BUTTERFLY Carterocephalus palaemon Rare in the UK Bob Gibbons Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Butterfly and caterpillar
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Hornet and Wild Rose, 1950 (oil on canvas)
RAV66521 Hornet and Wild Rose, 1950 (oil on canvas) by Ravilious, Tirzah (nee Garwood) (1908-51); 30.5x40.5 cm; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK

Beautiful Butterflies: A collector at work in New Guinea (colour litho)
6003270 Beautiful Butterflies: A collector at work in New Guinea (colour litho) by Twidle, Arthur (1865-1936); Private Collection; (add.info.: A collector at work in New Guinea)

Scarlet leafwing, Siderone galanthis
Scarlet or red-striped leafwing, Siderone galanthis, and cardinal butterfly, Argynnis pandora. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Van de Polls birdwing butterfly, Troides vandepolli (Amphrysius butterfly, Papilio amphrysius). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Lilies of the Valley, Purity and return of
Lilies of the Valley, Convallaria majalis, Purity and return of happiness; The purple Emperor Butterfly, Apatura iris, Immortality of the soul

Venus Verticordia (Venus the changer of hearts) - Oeuvre de Dante Gabriel Rossetti
FIA5401925 Venus Verticordia (Venus the changer of hearts) - Oeuvre de Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), 1868 - Watercolour, Gouache on Paper, 67x59 - Private Collection by Rossetti

The Blind Girl, 1856, (1948). Creator: John Everett Millais
The Blind Girl, 1856, (1948). Two girls, the elder one blind and with a concertina in her lap, rest by a wayside stream after rain

The Butterfly Hunter, c. 1840. Found in the collection of Museum Wiesbaden

Common Green Birdwing or the Priams Birdwing, Male, Ornithoptera priamus priamus

Emperor Swallowtail -Papilio ophidicephalus-

Sooty Copper -Lycaena tityrus- on Brown Knapweed -Centaurea jacea-, Hessen, Germany

Heath Fritillary -Melitaea athalia- on clover blossom

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