λ A VICTORIAN OAK WELLINGTON STYLE COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

λ A VICTORIAN OAK WELLINGTON STYLE COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

MAINLY SOUTH AMERICAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

with seven glass topped drawers of specimens including Atticus, Saturniidae Loxolomia serpentina, hawk moths, Atlas moths, heliconius, clear-wings, Ageronia Arete, morphos, tajuria, swallowtails and others, some drawers with collecting data

112.5cm high, 69.5cm wide, 46.6cm deep

Provenance

Collected by Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) in the first half of the 20^th century and displayed at Exbury House, Hampshire.

The Trustees of Exbury House.

We are grateful to Simon Moore M.I.Sc.T., A.C.R. from Natural History Conservation for his assistance cataloguing the present work.