Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides toy doll Ink on paper

Ink on paper

hard-trying effort

in significant part due just to the looks of it

It is stuffed full

I would guess it was the original  drawing after which an engraving were then made for a zoological volume

Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides toy doll Ink on paperA total delight to find this at Brimfield a quintessentially Victorian set of 36 glass microscope slides, still laid in their original wooden trays, which stack perfectly to fill their perfectly preserved dovetailed box, which latches at the front to hold them all inside. What makes this set especially special, though, is that the vast majority of the slides hold carefully clipped specimens of butterfly wings a case of wonders. I could write a lot