Antique Pair French Prints Of Swallow Tail Butterflies Paris 1864 By Lucas
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A antique pair of hand colored butterfly engravings presented in archival mattes and contemporary frames. This hand-colored entomology engravings are from Hippolyte Lucas’s Histroire Naturelle Lepidopteres d'Europe. Published in Paris in 1864 by F. Savy, the work featured almost 400 different species of butterflies. Lucas gained experience in the field of entomology while working as an apprentice for the Zoological laboratory in the Paris Museum of Natural History at the young age o...f 13. Measuring overall 12 x 15" framed. Antique Pair French Prints of Swallow Tail Butterflies Paris 1864 by Lucas
