Spiders (Araneidea, Plate 1) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 casablanca dimensions not specified)

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Clark lavishes attention on these thresholds

The map is part of Bartholomew's flagship series

This piece is not merely a map

Spiders (Araneidea, Plate 1) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 casablanca dimensions not specified)Arachnida Araneidea Pl 01 by Frederick DuCane Godman (1879) is a quintessential Victorian zoological illustration, created in the service of science at a time when taxonomy was rapidly advancing. Associated with the influential English naturalist Frederick DuCane Godman (18341919), this plate exemplifies the late 19thcentury practice of depicting species with clinical clarity on a pale, neutral ground. The result is an image that reads as both