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Title Branch of West Indian Cherry with Achilles Morpho Butterfly, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate 7

Description A branch of the West Indian cherry tree (Malpighia punicifolia) with the life stages of an Achilles morpho butterfly (Morpho achilles).

Agent (Role) Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717 (Author)

Date 1719

Artwork/Object Type Watercolors

Is Part Of Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth, Maria Sybilla Meriaen Over de voortteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche insecten

Collection/Work Relation AMNH Library, RF-56-F: Merian, Maria Sibylla. 1719. Maria Sybilla Meriaen Over de voortteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche insecten, : waer in de Surinaemsche rupsen en wormen, met alle derzelver veranderingen, naer het leeven afgebeeldt, en beschreeven worden; zijnde elk geplaest op dezelfde gewassen, bloemen, en vruchten, daer ze op gevonden zijn; beneffens de beschrijving dier gewassen. Waer in ook de wonderbare padden, hagedissen, slangen, spinnen, en andere zeltzame gediertens worden vertoont, en beschreeven.. t'Amsterdam, : by Joannes Oosterwyk, boekverkoper op den Dam in de Boekzael: Alwaer dit werk, ... te bekomen zyn.

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Repository American Museum of Natural History

Publication History Engel, Michael S., and Tom Baione. 2018. Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth. New York: Sterling, p. 96.

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