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Pomegranate and Menelaus Blue Morpho Butterfly
Maria Sibylla Merian1702/1703
Royal Collection Trust, UK
London, United Kingdom
A watercolour of a branch of pomegranate (Punica granatum) with the Menelaus blue morpho butterfly (Morpho menelaus) and the caterpillar of the banded sphinx moth (Eumorpha fasciata). This is a version of plate 9 in Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium.
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Details
- Title: Pomegranate and Menelaus Blue Morpho Butterfly
- Creator: Maria Sibylla Merian
- Date Created: 1702/1703
- Physical Dimensions: 37.3 × 30.2 cm (vellum sheet)
- 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, Butterflies, Caterpillars
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