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Butterflies & Insects

A collection of original antique prints depicting insects such as butterflies, caterpillars, beetles, moths, spiders, and others. Pieces date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and include hand-colored copperplate engravings and lithographs by artists such as Maria Sibylla Merian and Moses Harris. Filter by subject, price or century, or use the advanced search to look by maker or by the years a piece was printed.

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Planisphaerium Arateum, Cellarius, 1708
Planisphaerium Arateum, Cellarius, 1708, 318 years old

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