Maria Sibylla Merian
1647-1717, Naturalist and artist
Maria Sibylla Merian is one of the most important botanical artists in history and a pioneer of natural history. She is best known for her pictures of plants and insects.
She was the first to record the metamorphosis of butterflies and moths in their full cycle, in Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium.
The work
72 prints from one work. From the originals in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
All 72 prints by Merian
72 prints
Lantren Fly with Pomegranate Flower
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Large Horned Beetle with Potato
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Sweet Bean
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Orange
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Pearly-eyed Butterfly with Nut
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Red Ginger Plant with Bee
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Pepper Plant Capsicum
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Water Scorpion, Giant Water Beetle and Frogs
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Wooly-haired Megalopygio Caterpillar
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Pearly-eyed Butterfly and Flies
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Female Toad and Young with Watercress
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Caligo Butterfly Wasp and Acanthacae
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Sweet White Guava
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Papaya
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Cocoa
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Papaya
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Lemon
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Opossums with Young & Praying Mantis
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Fig
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Heather Butterfly & Metamorphic Study
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Caiman
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Lizard
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Frog metamorphic stages
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Stag Beetle, Palm Tree
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