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Pancrace Bessa, Three beetles and three butterfies: a ground beetle, a Calosoma sycophantis, and a cottonwood stag beetle; a peacock (Inachus io), and a Purple Emperor (Apatura iris, upper and under sides)

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Black chalk, watercolor and bodycolor heightened with white, watermark, 26.7 × 21.8 cm
Title: Pancrace Bessa, Three beetles and three butterfies: a ground beetle, a Calosoma sycophantis, and a cottonwood stag beetle; a peacock (Inachus io), and a Purple Emperor (Apatura iris, upper and under sides)
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Black chalk, watercolor and bodycolor heightened with white, watermark, 26.
7 × 21.
8 cm.

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