Dissertação sobre a geração e as metamorfoses dos insetos do Suriname, prancha 19
1726
Maria Sibylla Merian was a trailblazer who sailed to Suriname in the 1690s just to study bugs, a wildly dangerous move for a woman of her time! This detailed engraving from her famous book captures the entire life cycle of insects interacting with their host plants, showing caterpillars munching on leaves and a striking butterfly hovering nearby. Unlike her contemporaries who just pinned dead bugs in boxes, Merian painted them alive in their natural habitats, revolutionizing the field of entomology. The signature at the bottom, "P. Sluyter sculp," reveals this is an engraved print based on her original watercolors, bringing her vibrant scientific discoveries to a wider European audience.
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- engraving
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