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Butterfly with shaded wings, side view

Design No. 222955Archival & CollageMoffett’s Theater of Insects

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Ground Cream

Ink Black

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130 × 130mm
Material
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Butterfly with shaded wings, side view

Design no. 222955

Moths, beetles, spiders and scorpions from Moffett’s Theater of Insects, small woodcuts in a hard black line.

Design no.
222955
Department
Archival & Collage
Collection
Moffett’s Theater of Insects
Source
Thomas Moffett, The Theater of Insects (London, 1658), page 971
Illustrator
Anonymous woodcut engravers
Technique
Woodcut
Style
Moffett’s insect cuts: small, dense, hard black line
Subject
Insects
Colour
Black on cream as standard
Form
Single tile
Symmetry
Asymmetric
Complexity
Medium

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Butterfly with shaded wings, side view