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Insecta Lepidoptera-Heterocera, Plate 070 by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 tumc_fullarton_arrowsmith " one of the lastFrederick DuCane Godmans Insecta Lepidoptera Heterocera Pl. 070 (1879) captures the Victorian union of art and science at its most exacting. A leading English naturalist of the 19th century, Godman devoted his career to documenting insect life with precision and clarity. This plate presents a carefully arranged selection of moths rendered for study and classification, each specimen observed with fine attention to wing shape, venation, and pattern.