Horned Beetle, by Georg Dionysius Ehret

An image of Horned Beetle (?). Ehret, Georg Dionysius (German, 1708-1770). The Beetle (?) has reddish brown wing-case, the rest black with gold markings on head. Watercolour with touches of white and some gold on vellum, height 155 mm, width 194 mm. Album: Botanical Drawings.

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Horned Beetle (?). Ehret, Georg Dionysius (German, 1708-1770). The Beetle (?) has reddish brown wing-case, the rest black with gold markings on head. Watercolour with touches of white and some gold on vellum, height 155 mm, width 194 mm. Album: Botanical Drawings.

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Accession Number: PD.114-1973
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 807 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 552.50kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2015:12:09 15:51:39

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18th Century album antennae beetles botanical brown Ehret Fitz_PDP Georg Dionysius Ehret German horned beetle insects Other Keywords species vellum watercolour

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