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Pedestrian Mid-Eyed Locust, Mesops pedestris, Dusky Flat- horned Locust, Opsomala sordida and Cinnamon Keel-backed Locust, Goniaea australasiae

John James Wild1885

Museums Victoria

Museums Victoria
Carlton, Australia

Plates 139 - Pedestrian Mid-Eyed Locust, Mesops pedestris and Dusky Flat- horned Locust, Opsomala sordida and Plate 140 Cinnamon Keel-backed Locust, Goniaea australasiae from Frederick McCoy's "Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria".

John James Wild (1834-1900) came to Melbourne in 1881, after serving as the official artist on HMS Challenger's circumnavigation of the globe (1872-76). Wild brought a new level of analytical precision to the illustration of McCoy's Zoology of Victoria. He particularly enjoyed exploring symmetry and geometric form, such as that found in articulated exoskeletons, antennae and transparent wings. Wild was an accomplished lithographer. Carefully planned and tightly conceived, his images are the most technically sophisticated in the Prodromus."

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  • Title: Pedestrian Mid-Eyed Locust, Mesops pedestris, Dusky Flat- horned Locust, Opsomala sordida and Cinnamon Keel-backed Locust, Goniaea australasiae
  • Creator: John James Wild
  • Date: 1885
  • Date Created: 1885
  • External Link: Museum Victoria Collections
  • Rights: Copyright expired. Source: Museum Victoria / Artist: John James Wild
  • Medium: Lithograph on paper
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