WATERCOLOUR ALBUM - Exotic Butterflies Drawn and Coloured from ….Specimens in own collection.

Torquay 1908 – 1915, large 4to, original calf backed glazed boards, spine chipped at head and tail, 63pp with over 800 original watercolour illustrations of Exotic butterflies, each image named in Latin with manuscript titles, original contemporary silver print photograph of the author signed and dated to front paste-down.

A highly attractive album displaying an extraordinary collection of watercolours of many now extinct exotic species.

J. Walker and H. Lupton produced Notes on Local Lepidoptera (1915), a four page document. J. Walker published Notes on the Local Lepidoptera around the same time (no date given,) in the TNHS pages 265 to 275. It was suggested by Mr. Priestly (an active entomologist around 1900) that they should begin a collection of Devon butterflies and moths for the Museum (Torquay); This inspired J. Walker to write numerous papers and collect more specimens now held in the museum. Walker also published The Macrolepidoptera of the Torquay District (1930) and the booklets on Torquay Lepidoptera were produced by H. Lupton and J. Walker and sent to numerous museums and entomological societies.

J. Walker’s extensive collection of Lepidoptera was gifted and is housed in the Torquay Museum.