Monographie der Spinnen / Monographia Aranearum
Monographie der Spinnen, or Monographia Aranearum, is a German-language natural history study of spiders by Carl Wilhelm Hahn, published in 1820 and digitised by Heidelberg University Library for naturalists and scientific readers. Its hand-coloured copper-plate pages arrange spiders in labelled groups, each specimen drawn with precise leg and body markings on a warm cream ground. A designer could take the tidy grid layouts, the warm sepia paper tones, and the bold red, green, and black abdomen patterns as a model for specimen charts.
