Stag Beetle, by Georg Dionysius Ehret

An image of Stag Beetle. Ehret, Georg Dionysius (German, 1708-1770). Watercolour and bodycolour reinforced with gum Arabic on vellum, height 142 mm, width 170 mm. Album: Botanical Drawings.

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Stag Beetle. Ehret, Georg Dionysius (German, 1708-1770). Watercolour and bodycolour reinforced with gum Arabic on vellum, height 142 mm, width 170 mm. Album: Botanical Drawings.

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Accession Number: PD.114-1973.18
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 858 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 649.50kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2015:12:15 14:47:47

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

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