Georg Dionysus Ehret | Medlar and blackberry plants with emperor moths, caterpillars and pupae, watercolour on vellum

Georg Dionysus Ehret (1708-1770)

Medlar and blackberry plants with emperor moths, caterpillars and pupae

Folio (515 x 355mm.), watercolour and bodycolour on vellum; captioned, signed and dated at foot: "Mespilus… Rubus… G.D. Ehret pinxit 1741", mounted, vellum laid down

A FINE EHRET DRAWING ON VELLUM.

George Ehret (1708-1770) was indubitably one of the most well-respected and sought after flower painters of the eighteenth century. Ehret worked for a number of noteworthy naturalists including Linnaeus, Catesby and Philip Miller.