
Darf man es sehen?
London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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This painting shows two hawkmoths. Exotic flora and fauna were of great interest to British botanists in the 18th and 19th centuries, and such enthusiasm gradually filtered down to the general public. Travellers often returned to Britain with specimens of foreign insects and, more commonly, paintings depicting those insects.
Victoria and Albert Museum