Details
Dutch School, circa 1770
An Album with 284 Drawings and Watercolours and 14 fragmentary Prints of Insects and Shell Fish including Beetles, Ladybirds, Catterpillars, Moths, Flies, Spiders, Stable Flies, Locusts, Dragon Flies, Larvae, Wasps, Bees, Bumble Bees, Daddy Longlegs, Lobsters, Scorpions, Worms and Leeches, and a watercolour of archeological fragments, glued to 37 unnumbered pages, one loose, the printed title-page reading 'Verzameling van drie honderd zes en dertig naar het leven getekende en gecouleurde Torren, Wantzen, Cigales en Punaises.' and inscribed 'verzameld door J. Bleuland. Mus. (?) Prof. etc.'; almost all inscribed with Latin name and many with Linnaeus references, several also inscribed with names in Dutch, pencil, pen and black, grey or brown ink, watercolour, eight in pen and brown ink possibly by another hand, most of the fragmentary prints handcoloured, the album pages with fragmentary watermarks including shield with letter B, the drawings with fragmentary watermarks Strasburg lily of LVGerrevink, Vrijheyt, countermarks IV, KVD, S, Eagle, all bound in a contemporary half leather binding, with gilt title 'Verza/meling/van/Torren/Cicaden (sic)/en/Wantze'
the drawings ranging in size from 36 x 30 mm. to 194 x 252 mm., the album pages overall 279 x 213 mm.
