'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' mb-artistname Howard Davies Amongst the horses men are

Amongst the horses men are trying to protect themselves from being whipped

Inscribed in pencil verso 'Professor Faraday'

April 1975

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'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' mb-artistname Howard Davies Amongst the horses men areStudy of a harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) on a citron fruit (Cirtus medica) with, elsewhere, a moth in stages of development. Plate 28 from the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). Inscribed lower left: 'J. Mulder Sculp.', and with annotations by Sir Hans Sloane (1660 1753) The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla