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CharlesVauthier (1790 - 1879)
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Superb early C19th shell stipple engraving of Macracantha arcuata, the long-horned orb-weaver or curved spiny spider. Found in forested areas from northeast India and Bangladesh through Yunnan (China), Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and Borneo.
From Bory de Saint-Vincent, Dictionnaire Classique D’Historie Naturelle.
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Charles Vauthier (1790-1879 was a French entomologist, botanist, author and natural history illustrator. His brother Jules-Antoine Vauthier was also a prominent artist of his day. Their father was Michel Vauthier, a miniaturist at Versailles and later a publisher and art dealer in Paris. Vauthier was a collector of plants and insects in Brazil, arriving in Rio de Janeiro in December 1831 and returning to France, arriving at the port of Toulon on 21 May 1833.
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