Seven Insects

Pieter Withoos

17th century

Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite

Fogg Museum

A collection of seven meticulously rendered insects are depicted against a plain background. The insects include a bumblebee, a praying mantis, a beetle with red and green markings, a brown longhorn beetle, a black longhorn beetle, a red and brown winged insect, and a small reddish-brown insect. The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts