Early entomological art: The colour plates of Snellen van Vollenhoven

Abstract

Notes are given on the development of plates in the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie throughout its 150 years of existence. I focus on the drawings by the first editor and chief contributor in the first decades, S. C. Snellen van Vollenhoven. His original drawings were studied and compared with the printed plates to illustrate the interaction between scientist and artist. Some plates and their corresponding originals are reproduced in colour.