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  • smithsonianlibraries: Illustration of insects and flowers, from Maria Sibylla Merian’s Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung (1730) ( “Caterpillars, Their Wondrous Transformation and Peculiar Nourishment from Flowers” ) this image is from a later translated edition of Merian’s original, which was published in 1679. The Getty has an excellent online exhibition of some of her other work.

    smithsonianlibraries:

    Illustration of insects and flowers, from Maria Sibylla Merian’s Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung (1730) ( “Caterpillars, Their Wondrous Transformation and Peculiar Nourishment from Flowers” ) this image is from a later translated edition of Merian’s original, which was published in 1679.


    The Getty has an excellent online exhibition of some of her other work.


    Tagged: Women's History Month illustration entomology insects flowers books

    Posted on September 8, 2012 via Turning the Book Wheel with 84 notes

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