Antique chromolithograph butterfly plate from Macrolepidoptera of the World, Volume 5, Dr. Adelbert Seitz, Editor. Papilio - Parnassius - Plate 17 making it look like bornite

making it look like bornite

green and pink

we collected a huge striped piece

either a black and silver pen

a plate of neotropical Metalmarks

Antique chromolithograph butterfly plate from Macrolepidoptera of the World, Volume 5, Dr. Adelbert Seitz, Editor. Papilio - Parnassius - Plate 17 making it look like borniteThe Seitz plates are spectacular examples of scientific illustration and printing from the early 1900s. The use of metallic inks is unusual and makes some plates particularly dynamic. These were printed over a period from 1907 to 1954, with interruptions by two World Wars. All of these plates will mat and frame handsomely. They measure 9 3 4 " x 13" with a roughly 1 1 4" margin outside the black frame line. They are on a cream paper that is only very