A Swarm of Locusts

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A swarm of locusts.

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Name:: Unknown

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Subject:: Animals
Technique:: Lithograph
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: University of Illinois Library, the Internet Archive

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Title:: Brehms Tierleben, vol. 9
Author:: Brehm, Alfred Edmund
Publisher:: Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1900
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Description:

A dense swarm of green-headed locusts fills the horizon, as a farmer and his family make pathetic efforts to drive them away. In the foreground, some are seen in more detail feeding on wheat.

The caption reads in the original German: Schwarm der Wanderheuschrecke.

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