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DRAWING INSECTS - MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN | Scientific illustration, Botanical drawings, Illustration

I just discovered this book in the Bargain section at Barnes & Noble for 15 bucks: It's called INSECTS OF SURINAM and they're color plates done by a woman called Maria Sabylla Merian. She lived from 1647-1717. I was shocked by these dates! Apparently it wasn't very lady-like to draw insects, which were considered "unclean vermin." But Maria drew them in the name of religion, saying that they were all God's creatures. I can't find the plate where she describes the bumps in a caterpillar like…

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Red corn poppy, Shirley poppy. Papaver rhoeas. On the West Coast, Shirley poppies bloom early. … | Botanical illustration, Botanical illustration vintage, Poppy art

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Maria Sibylla Merian's 17th Century Drawing of New Flower Illustration

I drew this 17th century illustration from one of Maria Sibylla Merian’s New Flower books. A perceptive observer of nature since childhood, Merian discovered several new species of insects and plants as part of her work.

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Stunning Unused Design for Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium

A watercolour of a Passion Flower. Another version of this composition is in the British Museum (SL,5276.87). A drawing of a Passion Flower by Merians daughter Johanna Herolt, is in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (see Ella Reitsma, Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters, 2008, plates 119-120)Inscribed at bottom right: Maria S MerianMaria Sibylla Merian was the daughter of the printmaker Matthias Merian, and the step-daughter of the still-life painter Jacob Marrel. She was a…

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Maria Sibylla Merian: The Art of Nature

Maria Sibylla Merian | Der Rupsen Begin, Amsterdam, [1712-1717], 3 volumes in 1 | The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I | | Sotheby's

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