Bembidium Curvimanum
Thomas Vernon Wollaston published this drawing in his book ‘Insecta Maderensia’ in 1854. In the book he thanks Westwood for providing the illustrations, ‘Particularly, however, would I draw attention to the valuable help which I have received from J. O. Westwood, Esq., whose pencil has been so elaborately employed in the figures which I am thus enabled to attach, and by whom many of the minutest of the dissections were accomplished, — with a degree of delicacy, moreover, to which I did not myself at the commencement of this Work (though I have since succeeded in anatomizing the larger portion of them, likewise) lay claim.’
57. Bembidium curvimanum, Woll. (Tab. II. fig. 6.). Wollaston wrote the following about this species:
‘A very peculiar and interesting little Bembidium, and hitherto unique,—the specimen from which the above description has been compiled having been captured by myself in Porto Santo, at the edges of the small stream known as the Ribeiro de Serra de Fora, during December 1848.’
57. Bembidium curvimanum, Woll. (Tab. II. fig. 6.). Wollaston wrote the following about this species:
‘A very peculiar and interesting little Bembidium, and hitherto unique,—the specimen from which the above description has been compiled having been captured by myself in Porto Santo, at the edges of the small stream known as the Ribeiro de Serra de Fora, during December 1848.’
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 492/1911
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Common Name
- Bembidium Curvimanum
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- Production Date
- 1849
- Production Person Initials
- John Obadiah
- Production Person Surname
- Westwood
- Production Year Low
- 1848
- Production Year High
- 1849
