This beautiful image of a Large Cabbage Butterfly is from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. 
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Never could resist a butterfly 🙂 Thank you
So pretty – thanks