Two flowering plants: sheep's-bit (Jasione montana) and jasmine (Jasminum officinale), with a hawk-moth caterpillar. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1811.

Date:
12 March 1811
Reference:
25542i
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London : published as the Act directs, 12 March 1811.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 26 x 20 cm

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Jasione and Jasminum. 1. hairy sheep's scabious 2. common jasmine, with the caterpillar of the Sphinx atropos, or jasmine hawk-moth, feeding on it. J. Pass sc.

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Wellcome Collection 25542i

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