Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Plate 10

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 number2010.27.4

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionGossypium 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 from "Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium", Amsterdam, 1705.