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Coral Tree with Emperor Moth
Maria Sibylla Merian, plate 11
The print
- Technique
- Facsimile giclée
- Sheet
- 14¼ × 20¼ in, original size
- Paper
- White etching paper, 270 g/m²
- Ink
- Archival ink
- Edition
- Limited to 250 prints
$185
Limited edition of 250
€165 incl. VAT in the EU
Plus $45 shipping, import duties included. Free from $500 or 3 prints.Including VAT. Free shipping in the Netherlands; elsewhere €26.50, free from €450 or 3 prints.
Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
- Free shipping from $500 or 3 prints, otherwise $45. Import duties included.Free shipping in the Netherlands. Elsewhere free from €450 or 3 prints, otherwise €26.50.
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- Unframed, rolled in a hard carton tube
- Returns within 14 days
A facsimile of the original sheet
- Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Haarlem.
- Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
- Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.
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About this plate
Coral Tree with Emperor Moth is plate 11 of Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium by Maria Sibylla Merian (1719). This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 14¼ × 20¼ in (36.2 × 51.7 cm).
About the original
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) sailed to Suriname in 1699 with her daughter Dorothea Maria and studied its insects for two years. Back in the Netherlands she published Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium in 1705: hand-coloured copper engravings showing each caterpillar and butterfly or moth with the plant it feeds on.
After her death Dorothea sold the plates to the Amsterdam publisher Joannes Oosterwijk, who issued a second edition in 1719 with new plates. This series follows that edition, with all 72 plates.
- Title
- Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
- Published
- 1719
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 72 prints
