λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF WORLD BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF WORLD BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

20TH CENTURY

the glazed door enclosing fifteen glass topped drawers with a variety of specimens including: green bird wings, swallowtails, fritillaries, hawk moths, damselflies, Cleopatra, Arhopala Hercules and others, some drawers with collecting data

103.5cm high, 55.3cm wide, 42cm 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.