Adolphe Millot’s Papillons Exotiques – The Butterflies of South-East Asia
If you’re a regular haunter of museum gift shops (not an outrageous assumption if you’re reading this blog), you’ve probably seen this design before. Several dozen brightly coloured butterflies and moths, adorning teatowels, wall prints and postcards in a quaint Belle Epoque style. But who created this delightful piece of antique scientific illustration? Little is known about Adolphe Millot (1857-1921), the Parisian dessinateur responsible for this and many other plates depicting a wide variety of animals and plants, both European…