Beyer

Plants, insects, shells and a howler monkey share the crowded plates of these natural-history engravings by Beyer from the 1...

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Plants, insects, shells and a howler monkey share the crowded plates of these natural-history engravings by Beyer from the 1830s. They are associated with the Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle, and their French captions and grouped figures follow the order of a dictionary rather than of a single species. Cone shells, ammonites, sea anemones and barnacles appear with dragonflies, moths and mites, while the botanical subjects range from acacia and gum arabic to aloe, monkshood and cashew.

Plants, insects, shells and a howler monkey share the crowded plates of these natural-history engravings by Beyer from the 1830s. They are associated with the Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle, and their French captions and grouped figures follow the order of a dictionary rather than of a single species. Cone shells, ammonites, sea anemones and barnacles appear with dragonflies, moths and mites, while the botanical subjects range from acacia and gum arabic to aloe, monkshood and cashew.

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