Wasps (Hymenoptera, Plate 16) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 fribourg Cape Colony (South Africa region)

Cape Colony (South Africa region)

Iguaçu National Park

and shape the way a composer arranges notes—toward rhythm

keeping the composition lively without ever breaking its tranquil spell

Wasps (Hymenoptera, Plate 16) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 fribourg Cape Colony (South Africa region)Frederick DuCane Godmans Insecta Hymenoptera Pl 16 (1879) is a quintessential Victorian zoological illustration, created at a moment when natural history publishing fused scientific rigor with cultivated beauty. Produced to aid classification and study, this plate presents members of the order Hymenopterawasp like forms rendered with exacting attentionset against a pristine white field so that every jointed leg, veined wing, and banded abdomen can be