Beetles (Coleoptera, Plate 10) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 Size:45x60in (114x150cm) part of a broader 19th-century

part of a broader 19th-century effort to catalog biodiversity with rigor and elegance

Streets are not labelled

the oldest public garden in France

Chemins de fer du midi

Subtle shading and layering create convincing depth without losing the immediacy of an on‑the‑spot study

Beetles (Coleoptera, Plate 10) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 Size:45x60in (114x150cm) part of a broader 19th-centuryInsecta Coleoptera Pl. 010 (1879) by Frederick DuCane Godman is a quintessential Victorian zoological illustration, created at a moment when art and science were tightly intertwined. Godman, an English naturalist and collector, published this entomological plate as part of a larger effort to document beetles with clarity and authority. The composition reflects the periods devotion to careful observation and classification: multiple beetle specimens