Insects from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' Size:XL: 120 x 100cm with Mortimer Street

with Mortimer Street

Attributed to William Tasker

proposed as the representative of the Bonapartist party until such time as his own son

A porter enters

Insects from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' Size:XL: 120 x 100cm with Mortimer StreetEngraving of insects from thesis CLXIX 'Bigae Insectorum' by Andreas Dahl, 1775, published in volume 8 of Amoenitates academicae (Stockholm, 1785). Amoenitates academicae ('Academic delights', 10 volumes, 1749 1790) was published in Carl Linnaeus's name, and edited by him (vols 1 7) and J C D Schreber (vols 8 10). It consisted of theses presented and defended by students at Uppsala University. Original: engraving. 1785