Saturnidae / P. Sandio. – Vintage Wall Art
![Saturnidae / P. Sandio., [between 1850 and 1900] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/12/12b2f4e2bc01-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic drawing captures Saturnidae / P. Sandio. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Saturnidae / P. Sandio.
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Saturnidae is the family of giant silk moths, and this watercolor by P. Sandio renders the group in the careful, layered style that naturalist artists favored in the second half of the nineteenth century. Painters of this period often worked from preserved specimens or live rearings, aiming to show wing markings, eyespots and body structure accurately enough for identification. The record dates the work only to between 1850 and 1900, so little is known about the artist beyond the signature, but the piece belongs to a wider tradition in which hand-painted insect studies served as both scientific reference and decorative natural history.
| Created / published | [between 1850 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor. |
| Genre | Watercolors 1850-1900. |
| Notes | Watercolor by P. Sandio. |
| Subjects | Moths--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,792 × 4,750 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220451 |
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