Beetles (Coleoptera, Plate 140) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 Size:45x60in (114x150cm) or who has spent time

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It is at once a scientific diagram and an artistic reverie—an image designed to inform

Beetles (Coleoptera, Plate 140) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 Size:45x60in (114x150cm) or who has spent timeInsecta Coleoptera Pl 140 (1879) by Frederick DuCane Godman captures the exacting spirit of Victorian natural history. Rendered at a time when taxonomy was becoming rigorously systematized, this plate presents an orderly array of beetles, each specimen meticulously posed to showcase diagnostic features. Rather than telling a narrative, the composition privileges accuracy of form, patterning, and coloration, inviting close study of the astonishing