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Flowers, Butterflies and Insects: All 154 Engravings from "Erucarum Ortus"
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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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Flowers, Butterflies and Insects - Maria Sibylla Merian
Copyright © 1991 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.
This Dover edition, first published in 1991, is a republication of all the plates from Erucarum Ortus, Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis, originally published in Amsterdam in 1718. A publisher’s note has been written for this edition.
We are grateful to the Print Collection, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, for the loan of one of the images for reproduction.
DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES
This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)
However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic
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