1891 Plate LXII - Common Blue - Morris
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FRANCIS MORRIS
Plate LXII - Common Blue
COMMON BLUE.
PLATE LXII.
Polyommatus Alexis,
Polyommatus Labienus,
Polyommatus Thestylis,
Polyommatus Lacon,
Polyommatus dubius,
Papilio Alexis,
Papilio Argus,
Papilio Hyacinthus,
Papilio Icarus,
Lycarna Dorylas
1891
Lithograph, Hand Colored
Sheet Size 10 x 7 inches
Publisher: John C Nimmo, London
VG+ condition with light age toning
Francis Morris (25 March 1810 10 February 1893), Irish clergyman, notable ornithologist and entomologist and as the author of many children's books and books on natural history and heritage buildings.
Through working with Benjamin Fawcett (1808–1893), a local printer who was arguably the most accomplished of nineteenth century woodblock colour printers and illustrater Alexander Francis Lydon (1836–1917), Morris was able to create a several great works on natural history.
