A Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigorica viridissima Linneaeus), A Clioniona Spider, and a Beetle
The advent of the microscope in the early seventeenth century revolutionized the manner in which people saw insects. In about 1600, ants, bees, and butterflies garnered most scholarly attention, owing to their significance in biblical and classical sources. By the eighteenth century, the range of insects that were subjects of study had expanded in tandem with a new interest in understanding insects’ anatomies. The abrupt end of the green bush cricket’s lower antenna (and its shadow) at the left edge of the sheet suggests that this support may, at some point, have been cut down.
Artwork Details
- Title: A Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigorica viridissima Linneaeus), A Clioniona Spider, and a Beetle
- Artist: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century ?
- Date: 17th century (?)
- Medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache
- Dimensions: sheet: 4 3/4 x 6 11/16 in. (12 x 17 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Bequest of Catherine G. Curran, 2008
- Object Number: 2008.428
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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