Beetles (Coleoptera, Plate 10) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 Size:45x60in (114x150cm) Streets are not labelled

Streets are not labelled

part of a broader 19th-century effort to catalog biodiversity with rigor and elegance

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Beetles (Coleoptera, Plate 10) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 Size:45x60in (114x150cm) Streets are not labelledInsecta Coleoptera Pl. 010 (1879) by Frederick DuCane Godman is a quintessential Victorian zoological illustration, created at a moment when art and science were tightly intertwined. Godman, an English naturalist and collector, published this entomological plate as part of a larger effort to document beetles with clarity and authority. The composition reflects the periods devotion to careful observation and classification: multiple beetle specimens