Description
Medium: pencil, watercolour, ink & varnish on paper.
Summary: Watercolour illustration of the Imperial White Butterfly, Delias harpalyce, and its host plant, by Arthur Bartholomew, 1873, for for Plate 9 in The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria by Frederick McCoy.
This illustration forms part of the much larger Prodromus Collection. Many of the original illustrations in the collection informed the production of the two volume work 'The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria', Museum Victoria's first major publication commencing in 1878.
Physical description: Imperial White Butterfly, Delias harpalyce (Donovan) by Arthur Bartholomew. Drawing, pencil, watercolour, ink and varnish on paper, 3 Sept 1861, 26cm x 21cm. Drawing for Plate 9 in The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria by Frederick McCoy.
Image Licence
Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
Image Credit
Image source Museums Victoria
Location
Australia
Country
Australia
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
Flora & Fauna