Drawing, album (BM SL,5275.32)

Description:

drawing, album. Title: drawing, album. Description: English: Two examples of a yellow and brown butterfly, on a yellow-flowered plant, from an album of 91 drawings entitled 'Merian's Drawings of Surinam Insects &c'; and with caterpillar and chrysalis Watercolour, heightened with white (oxidised), and with pen and grey ink, on vellum. Date: 1701-1705 (circa). Medium: vellum. Dimensions: Height: 389 millimetres Width: 272 millimetres. Collection: British Museum . . Native name: British Museum. Location: London. Coordinates: 51° 31′ 10″ N, 0° 07′ 37″ W . Established: 1753. Website: www.britishmuseum.org. Authority file: : Q6373 VIAF: 134857252 ISNI: 0000 0001 2342 8817 ULAN: 500125180 LCCN: n79107735 NLA: 35022119 WorldCat. institution QS:P195,Q6373. Current location: Prints and Drawings. Accession number: SL,5275.32. Notes: Entry from J.Harvey's commentary to the Folio Society facsimile of the Surinam Album (London, 2006): 'Merian recorded that this plant, Cassia occidentalis (Linnaeus), the Styptic weed, grew in her garden in Surinam and that it “was used to lay on all wounds, as it helps to heal them”. The butterfly, larva and pupa are Opsiphanes cassina merianae (Stichel; family: Nymphalidae, Morphinae). This subspecies is named after Maria Sibylla Merian.'. Source/Photographer: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_SL-5275-32. Permission(Reusing this file): © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.