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drawing, album
Description
English: Vermis mirabiles, depicting the life-cycle of the insect, from an album of 160 drawings entitled 'Merian's Drawings of European Insects &c'; with examples of three caterpillars and two moths
Watercolour and bodycolour, on vellum
Date 1670-1679 (circa)
Medium vellum
Dimensions
Height: 201 millimetres
Width: 258 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
SL,5276.4
Notes This is similar to the engraving by Merian in pl.17 of her book, 'Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und konderbare Blumen-nahrung' (Johannes Graff, Nuremberg, 1679; British Library, 445.c.15 coloured edition).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_SL-5276-4
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