Illustrations by Pierre Amédée Varin (1818–1883) of the butterfly people from Les Papillons, métamorphoses terrestres des peuples de l’air (1862), a book by Eugène Nus and Antony Méray. These are from an Amédée Varin set at Flickr which also features some of Varin’s vegetable beings. Butterfly people have been turning up in my own work recently but you’ll have to wait to see those.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The illustrators archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The art of Yannis Tsarouchis, 1910–1989
• Butterfly women
• Saint-Aubin’s Butterfly People