• Title
  Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, drawn from the life by Harriet and Helena Scott
• Call number
  PXE 78/11
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1864, London : John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  152072
• Physical Description
  Prints - 1 printed book with 30 pages of text and 9 hand coloured lithographic plates, quarter bound with marbled boards - book measures closed 43.6 x 35 x 1.3 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Title page.
  Plate 1. Antheraea Eucalypti / From Nature by Harriet Scott On Stone by E. Thomas / Allen & Wigley. Printers Sydney
  Plate 2. Phloiopsyche Venuata [&] Phloiopsyche Splendens / From Nature and on Stone by Helena Scott
  Plate 3. Cryptophasa albocosta [&] Cryptophasa immaculata [&] Cryptophasa bipunctata [&] Cryptophasa spilonota / From Nature and on Stone by Harriet Scott / Allan & Wigley. Printers. Sydney
  Plate 4. Rhizopsyche Swainsoni / From Nature by Helena Scott / On Stone by E. Thomas. / Allan & Wigley. Printers. Sydney
  Plate 5. Aglaosoma lauta [&] Cerura Australis / From Nature and on Stone by Harriet Scott / Allan & Wigley Printers. Sydney
  Plate 6. Doratiophora Lewini [&] Doratiophora casta [&] Apoda Xylomeh [&] Apoda infrequens / From Nature and On Stone by Helena Scott / Allan & Wigley Printers. Sydney
  Plate 7. Chelepteryx Collesi / From Nature by Harriet Scott / On Stone by S. T. Gill. / Allan & Wigley Printers Sydney
  Plate 8. Agarista Casuarinae [&] Agarista Agricola / From Nature and On Stone by Helena Scott
  Plate 9. Conoeca Guildingi [&] Oecobia Frauenfeldi [&] Oecinea Felderi [&] Oecinea Scotti / From Nature and on Stone by Harriet Scott / Allan & Wigley Printers. Sydney
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Select items have been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
  D S. Mitchell signature on title page.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824128
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  title continues "with Descriptions, General and Systematic by A.W. Scott, M.A. Ash Island, Hunter River, New South Wales. / London: John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. MDCCCLXIV"
  Title page is inscribed "D S. Mitchell"
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Allan & Wigley
  Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1818-1880
  Scott, Harriet, 1830-1907
  Forde, Helena, 1832-1910
  Thomas, Edmund, 1827-1867
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (April 2005 - June 2006)
  ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (March 2010 - June 2010). Applies to: plate 5
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