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Loving Insects: John Abbot's Drawings and Natural History Collecting in the Atlantic World, 1760s-1840s

Loving Insects: John Abbot's Drawings and Natural History Collecting in the Atlantic World, 1760s-1840s

Tobin, Beth

Hardcover

Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books

Biographies GeneralNature WritingRegional: South

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 0820373575
ISBN13: 9780820373577
Publisher: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
Published: Jul 15 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 2.72
Height: 0.89 Width: 8.38 Depth: 11.16
Language: English
John Abbot's love of insects manifested itself in his exquisite watercolor drawings of butterflies, moths, beetles, cicadas, dragonflies, wasps, and spiders. Considered one of the finest illustrated entomological publications of its era, The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia combined those watercolors with Abbot's terse notes that described his encounters with these creatures. Born in London in 1751, Abbot journeyed to the American South in 1773 to collect and draw insects and birds for natural history collectors in Britain. Although he had had ambitions as a young man to join the ranks of London's natural history illustrators, he never returned to Britain. Instead, Abbot lived most of his long life in Georgia, where he made thousands of watercolor drawings of insects and supplied thousands of insect specimens to his British, European, and American clients. Despite his accomplishments as a naturalist and an artist, he is little known today. Loving Insects aims to rectify this omission by detailing Abbot's activities as a natural history artist, a specimen hunter, and a naturalist and by claiming a space for him as a major figure in the story of early American natural history.

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