'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' mb-artistname Howard Davies The Beatles 1964 American Tour

The Beatles 1964 American Tour Indianapolis

Inscribed in pencil verso 'Professor Faraday'

seated on the President's chair of the Royal Society

and drove it in the 1903 Thousand Miles Trial

'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' mb-artistname Howard Davies The Beatles 1964 American TourStudy of a harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) on a citron fruit (Cirtus medica) with, elsewhere, a moth in stages of development. Plate 28 from the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). Inscribed lower left: 'J. Mulder Sculp.', and with annotations by Sir Hans Sloane (1660 1753) The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla