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Drawn by: Maria Sibylla Merian

Attributed to: Johanna Herolt
Title
drawing, album
Description
English: Goldfinch on a Fig branch bearing fruit, from an album entitled 'Merian's Drawings of Surinam Insects &c'; and with an example of a brown moth
Watercolour, touched with bodycolour, on vellum
Date 1693-1700 (circa)
Medium vellum
Dimensions
Height: 383 millimetres
Width: 282 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
SL,5275.63
Notes

Entry from J.Harvey's commentary to the Folio Society facsimile of the Surinam Album (London, 2006):

'The bird illustrated in this watercolour is the Eurasian Goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis (Linnaeus). Although the plumage and patterning are accurate, the bill is incorrectly shown as curved (it should be straight) and the feet are rather heavy. A native to Europe, North Africa and Asia it may seem strange to see this bird included as part of a collection of watercolours on the natural history of Surinam. There are a number of possible explanations. Perhaps it was added as a purely decorative feature. It is also possible that goldfinches were taken as caged songbirds to Surinam in the 17th century and later escaped. This species is now found in Brazil as an introduced species. The bird is resting on the branch of a fig tree (see also watercolour 33), which has one fruit shown in cross section.'

Ella Reitsma considers this to be a collaborative work between Maria Sibylla Merian and her elder daughter, Johanna Herolt, with Maria Sibylla drawing the bird and butterfly and the daughter producing the fig branch, see E. Reitsma, 'Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science', Amsterdam / Los Angeles, 2008, p.221, fig.163
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_SL-5275-63
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