(Band 2)
This is a set of hand-coloured copperplate plates from Jacob Hübner's 1790 volume two of his lepidoptera catalogue, held by Heidelberg University Library, made for naturalists and collectors identifying moths and butterflies. The plates show moths and butterflies arranged in groups, each lettered with a figure number, drawn with fine outlines and soft washes of brown, grey and ochre. A designer might take the banded wing patterns, eyespots and tidy specimen-plate layout for natural-history motifs.
