Strawberry and emperor moth
1568
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1568
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Strawberry and emperor moth is a 1568 watercolor by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a byzantine_iconography work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a wild strawberry and a female emperor moth. It’s part of a set of 59 botanical drawings from around 1575. The artist was Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a Huguenot who worked in England and France. His work was almost lost until the early 1900s. His delicate plant and insect studies helped earn him a place among early botanical painters. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
