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drawing, album
Description
English: House mice, melons and nuts; from an album of 40 drawings of birds, reptiles, insects, plants and shells, etc by various artists
Watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white (partly oxidised), on vellum
Date 1691-1700 (circa)
Medium vellum
Dimensions
Height: 289 millimetres
Width: 376 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
SL,5279.27
Notes

This is one of very few works signed by Maria Sibylla Merian’s eldest daughter, Johanna Herolt. Her drawing style and sense of composition is very similar to her that of her mother, with whom she worked closely on the publication of the Surinam insect book in 1705. There are variations on the composition of this drawing in the Royal Collection, WIndsor Castle and in the Fondation Custodia, Paris. Johanna married in 1692 a Dutch merchant, Jacob Hendrik Herolt, who traded with Surinam. She did not make the journey in 1699 with her mother and sister to Surinam, but moved there in 1711 with her husband, who became director of an orphanage in Paramaribo.

Lit: E. Reitsma 'Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science', Amsterdam and Los Angeles, 2008, pp. 163 and 259, fig.124.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_SL-5279-27
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