A Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigorica viridissima Linneaeus), A Clioniona Spider, and a Beetle

17th century (?)

Not on view

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.

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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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