Plate III: grasshoppers, locusts and cicadas – Historic Print
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Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Plate III: grasshoppers, locusts and cicadas. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Plate III: grasshoppers, locusts and cicadas
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Plate III groups grasshoppers, locusts and cicadas on a single sheet, three insects that many viewers would not expect to see side by side. Numbered plates like this were common in natural history books from the 18th and 19th centuries, when illustrators drew specimens to help readers tell species apart. Grasshoppers and locusts belong to the same order, while cicadas are more distantly related, so the pairing reflects how observers once sorted insects by appearance, jumping and song. The sheet is worth studying for that older way of seeing, as well as for the detail in the individual figures.
| Original scan | 1,142 × 1,453 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g05360_ |
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