Set of three framed prints based on the work of French zoologist, Pierre André Latreille.

In November 1793 during the French Revolution, Pierre André Latreille was imprisoned under threat of execution. When the prison’s doctor inspected the prisoners, he found Latreille scrutinising a beetle on the dungeon floor. Latreille impressed the doctor by explaining that it was a rare insect having identified it as Necrobia ruficollis. The physician sent the insect to a 15-year-old local naturalist, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.  who knew Latreille’s work, and managed to obtain his release  Latreille and Bory de Saint-Vincent remained life-long friends.