Insecta Diptera (Plate 20) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 france and the fate of wild

and the fate of wild places in the nineteenth century

as if the sacred theme of “All Saints” were being reimagined as pure feeling

Ghent (modern-day population: ~262

The River Mersey and the dockside dominate the lower half of the map

Insecta Diptera (Plate 20) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 france and the fate of wildInsecta Diptera Pl. 20 (1879) by Frederick DuCane Godman is a quintessential Victorian zoological illustration devoted to the order Dipterathe vast group that includes flies, mosquitoes, and gnats. An English naturalist born in 1834, Godman worked at a moment when natural history surged into public view, and careful visual plates became indispensable to research and education. Here, that spirit of scientific exactitude is evident in the crisp, light