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Fine-line images of roses, butterflies, tulips, caterpillars, and other specimens of plant and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. These plates are considered among the finest achievements of a great age of floral painting and the engraver's art. Reprinted from the classic, influential works of the famed artist/entomologist Merian (1647–1717). New English captions.
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17 leaves of loose plates (46 x 32 cm.) of flowers and insects painted in Surinam from 1698-1701, issued in a bound portfolio that contains a biography of Merian and descriptions for each plate. Separate sheet with a brief introductory biography of Merian in 6 languages is inserted in volume.
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Line engraving, hand-colored, on cream laid paper, mat 49 x 36 cm. Floral wreath of many flowers, including lilies, carnations, iris, tulip, anemone, rose, hyacinth, lily, fritillary, and narcissus. A moth, a pupa and a caterpillar are in the center. Colors are opaque.
8) Musa
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Engraving, hand-colored on cream paper, matted and framed 66 x 55 cm. Fruiting branch with a lizard, three eggs, two butterflies, a chrysalis and a caterpillar.
9) Hyacinth
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Engraving, hand-colored on cream paper, matted and framed 66 x 55 cm. Single flowering hyacinth stalk, two beetles, and a frog in various life stages.
11) Citrus (orange)
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Engraving, hand-colored on cream paper, matted and framed 66 x 55 cm. Flowering and fruiting branch. Caterpillar, cocoon and moth.
12) Papaya
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Engraving, hand-colored on cream paper, matted and framed 66 x 55 cm. Flowering and fruiting branch. Two moths, two caterpillars eating leaves, 1 cocoon, 1 pupa.
13) Lizard
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Engraving, hand-colored on cream paper, matted and framed 66 x 55 cm. Cassava plant with some leaves eaten. Chrysalis, caterpillar, two butterflies and a lizard.
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