Orthoptera: Cum Tabulis LX Coloratis
A Latin natural history of orthopteran insects, grasshoppers, crickets and their kin, written by Toussaint von Charpentier and published in 1841 with sixty hand-coloured plates. The pictures show each species alone in flight, with wings spread, against a plain cream ground. A designer could draw on the layered wing veining, speckled patterns and the precise hand-tinted colour of the individual insects.
