Beetles (Coleoptera, Plate 1) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 east london where mood supersedes meticulous realism

where mood supersedes meticulous realism

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Beetles (Coleoptera, Plate 1) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 east london where mood supersedes meticulous realismInsecta Coleoptera Pl 1 by Frederick DuCane Godman introduces the viewer to the exacting beauty of Victorian zoological illustration. First published in 1879, this plate belongs to the golden age of natural history, when the meticulous study of beetlesColeopterawas central to cataloguing the diversity of life. Godman, an English naturalist born in 1834, presents an array of specimens with scholarly restraint and crystalline clarity. Against a crisp