Smithsonian Institution

"Mirror-Back" Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Type: Painting
Medium: watercolor
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the heirs of Abbott Handerson Thayer

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