File:Drawing, album (BM SL,5276.70).jpg
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[edit]drawing, album
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drawing, album |
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| Description |
English: Convolvulus and metamorphosis of the convolvulus hawk moth, with an ear of grain, ladybird and metamorphosis of the bright-line brown-eye moth, from an album of 160 drawings entitled 'Merian's Drawings of European Insects &c';
Watercolour and bodycolour, on vellum |
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| Date | circa 1683 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | vellum | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings |
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SL,5276.70 |
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| Notes |
The main moth and caterpillar with its chrysalis and the plant, without the other details, were reproduced in reverse in Merian's second volume of her 'Caterpillar Book' ('Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung', II, Frankfurt, 1683, plate 25; reproduced in Reitsma, 2008, p.111, fig.80) which suggests that the drawing was made before the print. Another version of the composition, Sl,5276.69, has been pasted above the present sheet in the Sloane album; this appears to be a copy, with some variations, of the related print. Lit: E. Reitsma, 'Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science', Amsterdam and Los Angeles, 2008, p.113, fig.81 |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_SL-5276-70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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