Maria Sibylla Merian – Cotton Plant with Caterpillar, Chrysalis, Moth, and Butterfly, Plate 10
Beautiful botanical engraving by Maria Sibylla Merian from Insects of Surinam: cotton plant with caterpillar, chrysalis, moth, and butterfly
Insects
Maria Sibylla Merian – Sweet Potato and Parakeet Flower with Insects, Plate 41
Merian Plate 41 from Insects of Surinam: hand-colored engraving of sweet potato and heliconia with moths, butterfly, and leaf-footed bug.
Maria Sibylla Merian – Opossum “Rat de Forest” plate 66 from “Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium”
Maria Sibylla Merian Plate 66 Insects of Surinam showing an opossum “Rat de Forest” with young and insects in a tropical setting.
Scheuchzer’s Physica Sacra – Illustration of Book of Proverbs Aphorism
Copperplate engraving from Scheuchzer’s “Physica Sacra” – A Natural History interpretation of the bible Texts in German and Latin: Der
Spiders Webs – Engraving from Scheuchzer’s Physica Sacra
Copperplate Engraving from Scheuchzer’s “Physica Sacra” – A Natural History interpretation of the bible Gottlose Machen Spinneweben – Araneae telas
A Plague of Beetles – Engraving from Scheuchzer’s Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel)
Copperplate engraving from Scheuchzer’s “Physica Sacra,” A Natural History interpretation of the bible for the pages describing plagues of locusts