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[Seascape scene with crab, flying fish, insect, and flower] / Acarie Baron del. ; Pfitzer a fe. – Historic Reproduction

[Seascape scene with crab, flying fish, insect, and flower] / Acarie Baron del. ; Pfitzer a fe., [1835] — historic image
[Seascape scene with crab, flying fish, insect, and flower] / Acarie Baron del. ; Pfitzer a fe., [1835]. Historic image from the Animals collection.

(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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[Seascape scene with crab, flying fish, insect, and flower] / Acarie Baron del. ; Pfitzer a fe.

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Rather than a single specimen, this plate gathers a crab, a flying fish, an insect, and a flower into one seascape, a composition typical of illustrated natural history in the 1830s. It appeared in the third volume of the *Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle des phénomènes de la nature*, edited by the entomologist Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville and published in Paris in 1835. The drawing is credited to Acarie and the engraving to Pfitzer, and the hand-applied color means tints can vary from copy to copy. Plates like this aimed to bring the wonders of the natural world to general readers who would never see such creatures firsthand.

Created / published[1835]
GenreBook illustrations 1830-1840.Etchings French Hand-colored 1830-1840.
NotesIllus. in: Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle des phénomènes de la nature / Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, ed. Paris : Au Bureau de souscription, 1835, v. 3, pl. 156, opposite p. 138.
SubjectsFlyingfish--1830-1840. Crabs--1830-1840. Insects--1830-1840. Flowers--1830-1840.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,164 × 1,468 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217576

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