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

Shoreline

Artist Maria A'Becket (American, 1840 - 1904)
Date1890
MediumOil on board
DimensionsFrame: 19 x 25 x 1 3/4 in. (48.26 x 63.5 x 4.45 cm)
Sight: 11 3/4 x 17 7/8 in. (29.85 x 45.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineThe Florida Art Collection, Gift of Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers
Object number2020.18.857
Collections
Landscape With Cows At Pond
Maria A'Becket
1904
Shallow black bowl.
Maria Poucka
undated
Botanical drawing including butterflies and a yellow caterpillar on a plant with green leaves and white-purple flowers; hand colored
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.
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.
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
Botanical drawing including a butterfly/moth, caterpillar, and other insects/bugs, on green leaves; hand colored
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
Botanical drawing including a moth, caterpillar, and cocoon on a plant with green leaves and yellow flowers; hand colored
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maria Sibylla Merian
1705
View of small cabin with figures standing on porch and in front of the cabin; smaller shack on the right edge; laundry hanging to dry between the two buildings.
William Aiken Walker
1890-1899
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