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drawing, album
Description
English: The life cycle of the moth, from an album of 160 drawings entitled 'Merian's Drawings of European Insects &c'; with examples of caterpillars and chrysalises on dandelion and borage
Watercolour and bodycolour, on vellum
Date 1670-1679 (circa)
Medium vellum
Dimensions
Height: 190 millimetres
Width: 270 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
SL,5276.25
Notes

This is related to the engraving by Merian in pl.8 of her book, 'Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und konderbare Blumen-nahrung' (Johannes Graff, Nuremberg, 1679; British Library, 445.c.15 coloured edition).

Lit: K.Schmidt-Loske, 'Die Tierwelt der Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717); Arten, Beschreibungen und Illustrationen', Marburg, 2007, p.60, no.6.I.6
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_SL-5276-25
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