Orange-Tip Butterflies
Orange-Tip Butterflies (Teracolus) — The Macrolepidoptera of the World · A. Seitz · 1925.
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Where it works
Seitz's Teracolus plate: about fifty small white butterflies, most tipped in orange or red at the wingtips, ranked in eight rows on a pale page with Latin names. Light and lively, it suits a nursery, a kitchen or a bathroom at 16×24 in natural wood, with his Tips and Brimstones.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Antique natural-history plate
- Era
- 19th century
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- white, orange, cream, red
- Mood
- fresh, playful
- Rooms
- kitchen, bathroom, nursery, kids room
- Good gift for
- her
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. Choose Full-bleed for the plate edge to edge in a slim black or natural wood frame, or the White-mat border for a classic gallery look. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Hangs alone or as a matched pair; three or more prints are 10% off.
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
About this design
The Madten promise
The cream specimen edition
The same plate set on a soft cream ground with a typeset specimen label — a gallery-ready print.













