Atropos Collection

Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, the Greek Fates or Moirai.. Handcolored copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from Mythology in Prints

Atropos
A portrait illustration of a reclined woman, titled Atropos, who was one of the three fates in Greek mythology, her name describes her as unalterable, or inflexible. Date: circa 1922

Nature Insect Insects Butterfly Butterflies Moth
nature, insect, insects, butterfly, butterflies, moth, moths, wing, wings, markings, 1898, 1890s, late, victorian, branch, branches, plant, plants, illustration, sphingidae, acherontia, atropos

Deaths Head hawk moth, Acherontia atropos. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842

Deaths head hawkmoth, six-spot burnet
Deaths head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, six-spot burnet, Zygaena filipendulae, and nine-spotted moth, Amata phegea. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles

African deaths head hawkmoth and oleander hawk-moth
African deaths head hawkmoth and larva, Acherontia atropos 1, 2, and oleander hawk-moth, Daphnis nerii 3. Sphinx tete de mort, chenille, Sphinx du laurier-rose

Deaths head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, moth, caterpillar and pupa (Jasmine sphinx, Sphinx atropos). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Deaths Head hawkmoth and oak hawkmoth
Deaths Head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, and oak hawkmoth, Marumba quercus. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas

Lancehead viper, Ceylon pit viper and berg adder
Lancehead, Bothrops atrox 1, Ceylon pit viper, Trimeresurus trigonocephalus 2 and berg adder, Bitis atropos 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Plee Jr

Deaths head hawkmoth, digger wasps, ball lichen
Ball lichen, Sphaerophorus globulus 1, Dynamene crustacean 2, digger wasps, Sphex species 3, 4, and African deaths head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, and caterplillar 5

Deaths head and eyed hawk-moths
Deaths head hawk-moth, Acherontia atropos 1, and eyed hawk-moth, Smerinthus ocellatus 2, moth, caterpillar and pupa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur

Curtis British Entomology Plate 234
Hymenoptera: Ichneumon atropos = Callajoppa exaltatoria (Death?s Head Ichneumon) [Plant: Luzula multiflora (Juncus liniger Withering, or Luzula congesta, Flaxen Rush)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 147
Lepidoptera: Acherontia atropos (Death?s-head Hawk) Date: 1824-39

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