'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' Ken 1682 (c1775)

1682 (c1775)

Church of St Benet Gracechurch and Gracechurch Street

league match at The Dell

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'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' Ken 1682 (c1775)Study of a harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) on a citron fruit (Cirtus medica) with, elsewhere, a moth in stages of development. Plate 28 from the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). Inscribed lower left: 'J. Mulder Sculp.', and with annotations by Sir Hans Sloane (1660 1753) The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla