Ants, Wasps and Bees (Hymenoptera, Plate 19) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 Size:A0 (841x1189mm) Working in the mid-19th century

Working in the mid-19th century and alongside his celebrated father

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Ants, Wasps and Bees (Hymenoptera, Plate 19) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 Size:A0 (841x1189mm) Working in the mid-19th centuryFrederick DuCane Godmans Insecta Hymenoptera Pl. 19 (1879) is a quintessential Victorian zoological illustration, created in the great age of natural history when images were tools for study as much as they were works of art. Arranged across a clean white ground, the specimens are presented with measured clarity, each figure rendered to illuminate structure and subtle differences at a glance. Godmanan English naturalist born in 1834was devoted to