Moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera, Plate 67) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 brooklyn originally published in 1896

originally published in 1896

living and working in France

The result is quietly cinematic: the eye ascends through layered rooftops to the tower’s sculptural massing

it was known for its Baroque architecture and palace

This remarkable pictorial map is more than a simple cartographic document

Moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera, Plate 67) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 brooklyn originally published in 1896Insecta Lepidoptera Heterocera Pl. 067 (1879) by Frederick DuCane Godman is a meticulous Victorian zoological illustration devoted to moths, created at the height of 19thcentury natural history. Godman, an English naturalist and collector born in 1834, championed the careful study and depiction of the insect world. This plate arranges multiple specimens with scientific precision against a pale, uncluttered ground, inviting close comparison of wing