Butterfli

Butterfli is a subject in art. The gallery holds 25 works in this subject in art, including works by Rufus Hathaway, Katsukawa Shunshō and Thomas Badger.

Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterised by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossils have been dated to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago, though molecular evidence suggests that they likely originated in the Cretaceous.