DETAILS
- Artist
- Maria Sibylla Merian
- Date
- 1665
- Medium
- watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor over indications in black chalk or graphite on vellum
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Drawings
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
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