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The plates illustrating the articles in the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie over the 150 years of its existence are worth further examination. They show a progression of style, interpretation, finesse, and presentation that is fascinating both for science-historical reasons and from a cultural-historical point of view. Some trends that can be discerned, and which, of course, reflect the general specialisation of the sciences and their separation from arts over the past three centuries, is that the plates become more rigid, less artistic, more ‘scientific’ over time. In the 1850’s and 1860’s, many of the plates adorning the articles show scenes from the life-history of butterflies, moths, sawflies, and others. The insects are depicted in the midst of their activities, with adults alighting on twigs, larvae eating away at a leaf, a pupa suspended from a branch... Although details of the eggs or particular morphological features are now and then shown enlarged with scale bars added, the realism of the plates was enhanced even further by depicting everything life-size whenever possible. Towards the end of the 19th century, these “scenes from insect life” are more and more replaced by arrangements of geometrically placed, identically depicted individuals. The plates of Diptera by van der Wulp in the 1890’s are tightly and orderly arranged habitus-drawings. In the 20th century this trend of departure from ‘artistic’ illustration continues, with the increase of the use of photographs, micrographs, and line-drawings of morphological details. I have chosen to reproduce some of the plates of one of TvE’s most prolific authors (see also the article by Huijbregts & Van Nieukerken on p. 245-262 of this issue), Samuel Constant Snellen van Vollenhoven (1816–1880). In the first decades of its existence, Snellen van Vollenhoven was its editor and personally prepared the majority of the plates. His original drawings are still held in boxes in the library of the Netherlands Entomological Society (in the case of the earliest drawings, they are still in Snellen van Vollenhoven’s original folder, marked Konstboek [“book of art”]) and offer a fascinating insight into the way he worked. Not having the present-day advantage of photographic reduction, he drew his work in the same scale as they were to be printed. The result can be seen in, for example, the drawings of weevils on p. 264. Hand-coloured pencil drawings were prepared on pieces of cardboard or drawing paper and submitted, often with scribbled directions, to the artist who was to prepare the plates. In the beetle plates shown here (all from Volume 7, Snellen van Vollenhoven 1864), the plates were prepared as lithographs (apparently hand-coloured, although chromolithography was already available at the time), but in other volumes Early entomological art: the colour plates of Snellen van Vollenhoven