Moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera, Plate 067) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 alnwick or architectural constellations—without ever resolving

or architectural constellations—without ever resolving into a literal scene

His students included a young Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

or for anyone drawn to Japanese aesthetics

angular lines of figures and buildings

capturing the quiet poetry of a spring evening as tree branches veil the view and the stately Otemon gate and wall rise beyond a broad reflecting pool

Moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera, Plate 067) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 alnwick or architectural constellations—without ever resolvingFrederick DuCane Godmans Insecta LepidopteraHeterocera Pl 069 (1879) is a Victorian zoological illustration devoted to moths at a moment when natural history surged from private curiosity to organized science. Issued in the early years of the monumental Biologia CentraliAmericana project, the plate exemplifies the periods aim: to record, compare, and classify with exquisite clarity. Multiple specimens are arrayed on a pale field, their forms isolated