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FW. Hope M.A. [facsimile signature]President of the Entomological Society. F.R.S. F.L.S. F.G.S.
Drawn from life & on Stone by J. Dickson Esq.r M & N Hanhart lith. Printers
Published by J. Dickinson 114 New Bond St. [c.1845]
Lithograph with tintstone, scarce, printed area 335 x 225mm (13¼ x 8¾") very large margins.
Frederick William Hope (1797-1862), entomologist and collector of insects and engravings (he owned over 14,000 portraits, 70,000 topographical prints and 20,000 natural history prints). Hope's collections were given to the University of Oxford), the insects to the Museum of Natural History and the prints to the Ashmolean Museum. Hope also established the Hope professorship of zoology at Oxford. He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society (1822) and the Royal Society (1834), and was president of the Entomological Society on three separate occasions.
[Ref: 44832] £330.00
Published by J. Dickinson 114 New Bond St. [c.1845]
Lithograph with tintstone, scarce, printed area 335 x 225mm (13¼ x 8¾") very large margins.
Frederick William Hope (1797-1862), entomologist and collector of insects and engravings (he owned over 14,000 portraits, 70,000 topographical prints and 20,000 natural history prints). Hope's collections were given to the University of Oxford), the insects to the Museum of Natural History and the prints to the Ashmolean Museum. Hope also established the Hope professorship of zoology at Oxford. He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society (1822) and the Royal Society (1834), and was president of the Entomological Society on three separate occasions.
[Ref: 44832] £330.00