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Art History Animalia<p>For <a href="https://historians.social/tags/LearnAboutButterfliesDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LearnAboutButterfliesDay</span></a>:</p><p> "Montreal, June 1792. The Black as rich as velvet; the inside of the above butterfly." <a href="https://historians.social/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SciArt</span></a> by Elizabeth Simcoe (English, 1762-1850). Identifiable as a female Eastern Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes).</p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_butterfly_in_Montreal,_1792.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil</span><span class="invisible">e:Black_butterfly_in_Montreal,_1792.jpg</span></a></p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/HerNaturalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HerNaturalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/WomenArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenArtists</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistoryMonth</span></a></p>
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