Plate 51: Grasshoppers and a Caterpillar with a Four O'Clock Flower

Joris Hoefnagel

National Gallery of Art

The image shows a pink flower with yellow accents on its petals, a blue and brown grasshopper, and a brown and orange caterpillar. The color palette includes pink, yellow, green, blue, brown, and black. The flower is near the top center with green leaves on the stem. Below and to the left, the grasshopper is slightly slanted with its wings outspread. Directly below the flower, the caterpillar is crawling vertically on a green stem. To the right, a small green and pink grasshopper stands. The background is off-white.