Engraver Emil Hochdanz (1816–1885) chromo-lithographed and printed by Werner & Winter

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

Werner & Winter, trading as Hauser Press, was a prominent German printing and publishing firm active in Frankfurt during the 19th century. The company specialised as chromo-lithographers and letterpress printers.

Emil Hochdanz and Hauser Pess were engaged to illustrate William Warren's section on "Noctuiform Phalaenae: Erastrianae" in Volume 11: The Macrolepidoptera of the Indo-Australian Fauna, in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World.

Copies of some illustrations in this website engraved by Emil Hochdanz
and lithographed and printed by Werner & Winter (Houser Press) :-

ACONTIINAE

Micraeschus rufipallens

Microedma extorris

Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera artists

Australian moths

(written 5 August 2026, updated 20 August 2026)