DETAILS
- Artist
- Maria Sibylla Merian
- Date
- 1693
- Medium
- Watercolor, white gouache, on vellum
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- sheet: 14 x 10 5/16 in. (35.5 x 26.2 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2012
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