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Maria Sibylla Merian, Krausblätterichte Grind- oder Mengwurtz. / Lapathum acutum, crispum, Kupferstich, abgedruckt in: Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumen-nahrung: worinnen, durch eine gantz-neue Erfindung, Der Raupen, Würmer, Sommer-vögelein, Motten, Fliegen, und anderer dergleichen Thierlein, Ursprung, Speisen, und Veränderungen, samt ihrer Zeit, Ort und Eigenschaften, Nürnberg, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Bd. 2, 1683, Tf. V

Curly Dock with Metamorphoses of the Small Engrailed and the Blood-Vein, after 1683

Blatt: 202 x 136 mm

Physical Description: Watercolour and gouache over transfer print on vellum, framed on all sides with a black line

Inventory Number: 1501

Object Number: 1501 Z

Acquisition: Acquired in 1817 from the Johann Georg Grambs Collection

Status: Request for presentation in the study room of the Prints and Drawings Department

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About the Work

Maria Sibylla Merian had gathered so much material over the years that, in volume two of her Caterpillar Book of 1683, she took to depicting several metamorphoses on a single plant. Here, for example, we see the developmental stages of two different butterflies.