Natural History Cabinet, Insects

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The frontispiece and title page spread for The Good Child’s Cabinet of Natural History, Embellished with 32 fine Engravings, vol. 4 Insects, printed in London by John Wallis, 1801. Insects is one of five miniature books contained inside the wooden box for Wallis’s Elegant Present of Natural History, held at Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, QH48 .W214, copy 1.

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In this frontispiece interlocutor gesture, two boys capture insects with their hats, chasing a moth and a cricket next to a beehive, with a large country house in the background. Their joyful activity suggests a parallel between the collection, examination, and cataloguing of in “read” and label nature.

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    Wallis’s Elegant Present of Natural History (London: John Wallis, 1801).
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