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Botanical drawing including butterflies and a yellow caterpillar on a plant with green leaves and white-purple flowers; hand colored
Plate 8
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Plate 8

Artist Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647 - 1717)
Date1705
MediumEngraving, hand colored
Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Kevin and Margaret Harrington
Object number2010.27.2
Collections
Visual DescriptionA yellow caterpillar (Opsiphanes butterfly? [Nymphalidae, Satyrinae]) with crowned head and forked tail, pupa, and two butterflies (Nymphalidae? [Hamadryas ainome]) on a plant with green leaves and white-purple flowers. Plate 8 from "Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium", Amsterdam, 1705.
Botanical drawing including a butterfly/moth, caterpillar, and other insects/bugs, on green leaves; hand colored
Plate 58
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
Gossypium arboretum (Surinamese Cotton Tree) with the white and pink flower in various stages, along with two separate species of moths and their corresponding larva (caterpillar) and pupa (cocoon) stages.
Plate 10
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
Botanical drawing including a moth, caterpillar, and cocoon on a plant with green leaves and yellow flowers; hand colored
Plate 39
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
A green plan with small red flowers and one spiky yellow caterpillar, one smooth yellow caterpillar, three cocoons, one blue moth, and one tan moth on it. A yellowjacket hornet flies nearby.
Plate 54
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
One orange caterpillar, one spiky yellow caterpillar, two cocoons, one brown-red moth, and one brown and white spotted moth crawl on a plant with light brown stems and green leaves.
Plate 61
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
One brown and white caterpillar, one blue and white striped caterpillar, two cocoons, one brown and white moth, and one brown and blue moth crawl on a plant with a light brown, woody stem and green leaves.
Plate 67
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
Bixa orellana (Achiote plant) in flower, with red seeds inside a fuzzy seed pod. Hesperiidae (the blue moth) and Pyralidae (the blue and white moth) and their larvae/caterpillars and pupae resembling the subfamily Arctiinae (Family Erebidae) crawl on the plant.
Plate 44
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
One tarantula eating a Ruby-topaz hummingbird, and one tarantula eating a smaller species of ant on a defoliated tree; two other large spiders (kleptoparasites? [thief spiders]) in their webs, one with spiderlings; more ants of varying sizes crawl along the tree and attack a beetle.
Plate 18
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
Flora and fauna in a landscape including black and yellow butterflies, a black beetle, tadpoles, frogs, seashells, palm trees, seaweed, and mountains in the distance; hand colored
Plate 72
Anonymous
1719
2 butterflies, spider hanging by thread.
Spider at Dawn; Butterflies at Sunset
Mori Yuzan
dated 1903
Interior with silhouette figure and cases of butterflies.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1983
A print of a man in an 18th-century wig and cravat. A dense arrangement of large flowers, grapes, and peaches floats above his head, accompanied by two butterflies on the left and a perched bird on the right.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Jiri Anderle
1988

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