Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam Pl.01 (1705)

Maria Sibylla Merian is the artist behind "Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam Pl.01", dated 1705. The catalogue places it in Plants & Animals. The format is portrait. Plants & Animals in brief: Naturalists and artists often worked together, especially on voyages and in published surveys of flora and fauna. Images of plants and animals run from medieval herbals and bestiaries to the scientific illustration of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. About the period around 1705: In Japan, ukiyo-e woodblock printing flourished in the Edo period and made colour prints a popular and affordable art form. The Enlightenment and the habit of the Grand Tour fed a wider interest in science, travel, antiquity, and natural history, and illustrators accompanied many expeditions.

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German, 1647–1717

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