Silk Worm Moth, Silk Worm in the Cone, and Silk Worm Stages, Buffon Plate 104

An engraved plate arranged in panels showing a silk moth with striped wings, a fibrous silk cocoon, a segmented larva, a pale pupa in its case, and a second larva in a curled posture. Fine hatched line shading gives each form volume against a bordered white page.

Artist

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Date

1792

Medium

Source

Wellcome Collection

Size

2327 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection