• Title
  Item 06: [Banksia Beauty - Bombyx Banksiae], 1803 / J.W. Lewin
• Call number
  SAFE/PXC 693/6
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  October 1803, Printed beneath image: Publish'd as the Act directs Octo 24. 1803. by J.W. Lewin New. South. Wales.
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  147673
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - 20.5 x 15.6 cm (print size) - hand coloured etching mounted onto album page
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Titled from plate 15 of Lewin's "Natural History of eighteen nondescrpt. moths with descriptions ...", Parramatta, 1804 (ML ref. PX*D 258), & plate 9 of the English edition "Prodromus Entomology ...", London, 1805 (ML ref. F595.78/L)
  For a similar drawing to this etching by Lewin, in his collection of drawings of caterpillars and moths, see ML ref. ZPXB 205 f.5
  Digital order no:a418006
• Exhibited in
  
  A Rage for Curiosity
  Lewin: Wild Art
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3312433

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