Insecta Coleoptera, Plate 50 by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 Size:20x28in (50x70cm) Isaak Tirion

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Insecta Coleoptera, Plate 50 by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 Size:20x28in (50x70cm) Isaak TirionFrederick DuCane Godmans Insecta Coleoptera Pl. 050 (1879) is a classic of Victorian zoological illustration, presenting an ordered array of beetles with the crisp precision that defined late 19th century natural history. Godman, an English naturalist born in 1834, used engraved plates like this to advance identification and classification, balancing scientific exactitude with quiet elegance. On a pale ground, meticulously inked forms and small,