E. C. Knight
Illustration — Plate from The Coleoptera of the British islands E. Knight del. Lith. Knight (1879 fl. -1915 fl.) was an English illustrator.
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E. C. Knight
Frederic Moore / E. C. Knight / Frederic C. Moore / Vincent Brooks, Day Son · Lepidoptera Indica. Volume 9 · Public domain
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Illustration — Plate from The Coleoptera of the British islands E. Knight del. Lith. Knight (1879 fl. -1915 fl.) was an English illustrator.
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He undertook zoological entomological and botanical drawing, lithography, and chromolithography for William Weekes Fowler, Frederic Moore, Edmund Reitter and Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe among others. Knight worked in association with the Zoological Society of London. West, Newman & Co., in London.
Employment is recorded with Alfred Fryer, Arthur Bennett and Charles William Andrews.
Pisola zennara = Capila zennara (male, female, male underside)
Frederic Moore / E. C. Knight / Frederic C. Moore / Vincent Brooks, Day Son · Lepidoptera Indica. Volume 9
Capila jayadeva (male, female, male underside)
Frederic Moore / E. C. Knight / Frederic C. Moore / Vincent Brooks, Day Son · Lepidoptera Indica. Volume 9
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- 1.Ormerod, Eleanor. Economic Entomologist: Autobiography and Correspondence. E. P. Dutton. 63. 1904.
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- Nissen, Claus. Die Zoologische Buchillustration. Ihre Bibliographie und Geschichte. Anton Hiersemann. II: Geschichte. 1971.
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