Cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
Measurements
137 cm (H)99 cm (W)48 cm (D)
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Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1440909.1
Summary
[Destroyed in the fire of 2015] Late nineteenth or early twentieth-century mahogany specimen cabinet fitted with 40 glass-topped drawers containing a collection of butterflies and moths, enclosed by two mahogany and glass doors.The butterfly and moth collection was made by William, 4th Earl of Onslow's youngest son, Huia (Victor Alexander Herbert) Onslow (1890-1921) apparently with additions by his nephew, William Arthur Bampfylde Onlsow, later 6th Earl of Onslow.Huia Onslow was an undergraduate at Cambridge University and continued post-graduate research there in biochemistry. Onslow carried out ground-breaking research into the iridescence of insects, including butterflies and moths, alongside colleages including Muriel Wheldale (1880-1932) whom he married in 1919.ahogany specimen cabinet fitted with 40 glass-topped drawers containing a collection of butterflies and moths, enclosed by two mahogany and glass doors.
Provenance
Marked in Lady Iveagh’s 1966 Inventory, p32 Purchased in 1986 with the aid of a grant from the V&A Museum Purchase Grant Fund and the Monument Trust