Maria Sibylla Merian and her daughter, Dorothea Maria Henriette travelled to Surinam in South America, where they recorded plants, insects, and animals of the region between 1699 and 1701.
This illustration has been attributed to Dorothea, and comes from a second edition of their work in Suriname, 'Mariae Sibillae Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium', published in 1719.
The University of Sydney Library copy of this work has an English calligraphic manuscript translation by William Chinnery, dated 1734.
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