Butterflies of North and South America mb-width 3290 Original is oil on canvas

Original is oil on canvas 20x23 (inches) NOTE: this is 5

Inscribed: 'Sr C Blagden'

A woman fills a water-jug from the River Nile

Schlachter & Seedorff

Butterflies of North and South America mb-width 3290 Original is oil on canvasTwo varieties of butterfly, numbered 4 5. Figure 4 lower surface of Papilio amulius [the Belus swallowtail, Battus belus, a native of South America]. Figures 5 6 upper and lower surfaces of Papilio sesonia [the Southern dogface, Zerene cesonia, a native of North and South America and the Caribbean]. The insects shown were part of the collection of Johann Christian Gerning (1745 1802). The accompanying text states that 'under the immediate care and