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drawing, album
Description
English: A bat, with outstretched wings and a spider in a web above, from an album of 160 drawings entitled 'Merian's Drawings of European Insects &c'; flies caught in the web
Watercolour, on vellum
Date 1691-1699 (circa)
Medium vellum
Dimensions
Height: 323 millimetres
Width: 270 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
SL,5276.160
Notes

Label copy, 2009:

'This sensitive portrayal of an outstretched bat with insects trapped in a web illustrates Merian’s scientific approach to her subjects. Throughout her life, she collected and nurtured specimens in order to study their behaviour and appearance. The faded condition of this sheet attests to its popularity. During the early history of the British Museum, the Trustees stipulated that the drawings by Maria Sibylla Merian, kept in two massive albums, should not be removed from public display; ‘they being in continual use for the amusement of persons coming to see the Museum’. ' It is interesting to note that there is a drawing of c. 1523 by Hans Holbein the Younger of a dead bat in exactly the same pose as Merian's (Basel, Kunstmuseum, inv.no. 1662.162); but this is not a copy and it is uncertain whether Merian knew of Holbein's drawing which was part of the Amerbach collection in the possession of the city of Basel and open to the public from the mid seventeenth century.


Lit: E. Reitsma, 'Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science', Amsterdam and Los Angeles, 2008, pp.86 and 88, fig.63
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_SL-5276-160
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