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Click to enlargeFlowers, Butterflies and Insects: All 154 Engravings from "Erucarum Ortus"

Maria Sibylla Merian
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486266362
Page Count: 160
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 11
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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