Originally coloured copper engravings with butterflies
from "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen
Insecten" by C.G. Jablonsky & J.F.W. Herbst,
Berlin 1785 - 1806.
Carl Gustav Jablonsky (1756-1787) was a naturalist,
especially an entomologist, but also a talented illustrator
and he was the private secretary of the Queen of Prussia.
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743-1807) was a zoologist
and he published several works on insects, but also
on crustaceans and annelids. Both lived and worked in
Berlin.
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