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Branch of Guava tree with Army Ants, Pink-Toe Tarantulas and Huntsman Spiders
Maria Sibylla Merian1702/1703
Royal Collection Trust, UK
London, United Kingdom
A watercolour of a branch from a guava tree (Psidium guineense) with army ants (Eciton sp.), pink-toed tarantulas (Avicularia avicularia), huntsman spiders (Heteropoda venatoria) and a ruby-topaz hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus). This is a version of plate 18 in Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium.
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- Title: Branch of Guava tree with Army Ants, Pink-Toe Tarantulas and Huntsman Spiders
- Creator: Maria Sibylla Merian
- Date Created: 1702/1703
- Physical Dimensions: 39.0 × 32.3 cm
- Provenance: Dr Richard Mead (1673–1754); his sale (London, Abraham Langford, 13–16 January 1755, lot 66), where purchased by an unknown collector; sold 15 June 1768 (London, Paterson and Eve, lot 572), where purchased by Sir John Hill via Wilson; George III by c.1810
- Rights: Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021
- Medium: Watercolour, Bodycolour, Vellum, Gum arabic
- Depicted Topic: Fruit, Trees, Ants, Spiders, Birds
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