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

Plate 54

Artist Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647 - 1717)

Date1705

MediumEngraving, hand colored

DimensionsMat: 22 x 18 in. (55.88 x 45.72 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Peter Descorcy

Object number2010.29.1

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionA green plant 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 from "Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium", Amsterdam, 1705.