1882 Lithograph WF Kirby Art Lepidoptera Skipper Butterfly Moth Insect Bug EBM1 XAC1 Sterling IL

Sterling IL

East 52nd Street

" Many consider his artwork to be the preface to the art movement known as Impressionism

This piece was illustrated by Raffaelli

1882 Lithograph WF Kirby Art Lepidoptera Skipper Butterfly Moth Insect Bug EBM1 XAC1 Sterling IL"The Perfect Insect, or Imago" This is an original 1882 black and white lithograph by English entomologist William Forsell Kirby (1844 1912), of the different parts of the "perfect insect, or imago" of European Macro Lepidopterans that includes butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth butterflies. Some of the many parts depicted are; the vertex, eyes, feelers, antennae, ocelli, mandibles, maxillary palpi, labium, labial palpi, thorax, scapulae,