Bees (Hymenoptera, Plate 27) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 36x24max50min16 Design and color: Webber orchestrates

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Bees (Hymenoptera, Plate 27) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 36x24max50min16 Design and color: Webber orchestratesInsecta Hymenoptera Pl. 27 (1879) by Frederick DuCane Godman distills the Victorian passion for classifying the natural world into a quietly elegant scientific plate. Godman (18341919), an English naturalist and collector, worked at a moment when entomology and taxonomy were rapidly expanding, and when exacting illustration was essential to research. This sheet focuses on bees within the order Hymenoptera, presenting them with clarity and restraint so