Overlapping butterflies in green, black with blue spots, and orange with zigzag edges, a hand-coloured Art Deco plate on white.

A small version of the same cluster of green, blue-spotted and orange butterflies, centred on white. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

No. 126 of 248 · The Natural History Series

Butterflies, Plate 6

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Green swallowtails, a blue-spotted black butterfly and a zigzag-edged orange one crowd together in this plate from E. A. Séguy's Papillons of about 1925. Séguy's Art Deco portfolio was coloured by hand in Paris through stencils, one for each colour. For someone who loves bright wings and beautiful old prints.

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On the back

From the great natural-history books of the 1700s to the 1900s / Butterflies / Plate 6 of Séguy's Papillons / A caterpillar dissolves almost completely inside its chrysalis and is rebuilt as a butterfly, yet it can remember things it learned as a caterpillar. / Papillons, about 1925 / E. A. Séguy's Art Deco portfolio, coloured by hand in Paris through stencils, one for each colour (pochoir).

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