Wasps (Hymenoptera, Plate 16) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 fribourg and Australasia

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Bierstadt (1830–1902) was among the 19th century’s most celebrated interpreters of American wilderness

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Wasps (Hymenoptera, Plate 16) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 fribourg and AustralasiaFrederick DuCane Godmans Insecta Hymenoptera Pl 16 (1879) is a quintessential Victorian zoological illustration, created at a moment when natural history publishing fused scientific rigor with cultivated beauty. Produced to aid classification and study, this plate presents members of the order Hymenopterawasp like forms rendered with exacting attentionset against a pristine white field so that every jointed leg, veined wing, and banded abdomen can be