Butterfly Gallery

Butterfly illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian

Butterfly illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, engraved by P Sluyter, from a visit to Suriname, South America, folio volume with colour plates. Date: 1719

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Scarlet leafwing, Siderone galanthis

Scarlet or red-striped leafwing, Siderone galanthis, and cardinal butterfly, Argynnis pandora. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806. Date:

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Scene from the opera, Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini

Scene from the opera, Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini: Cio Cio San's uncle, the Bonze, interrupts her marriage ceremony to Lieutenant Colonel F. B. Pinkerton, ordering her family to renounce her as she has converted to Christianity in order to please her new American husband. Date: c.1910

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