[Three bees] [art original] / M.S.M. [Beetle and two flies] / M.S.M.
- Creator:
- Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [not after 1717]
- Physical Description:
- 2 drawings : watercolor on laid paper, mounted on blue laid paper ; sheet 10.2 x 13.6 cm and sheet 10.4 x 11.3 cm, mounted to 28 x 22 cm
- Notes:
- Titles from local catalog card.
Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials.
Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date.
Formerly page 21 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954. - Abstract:
- Two watercolor drawings, one depicting three bees and the other depicting a small wasp(?), a rhinoceros(?) beetle, and an unidentified insect.
- Variant Titles:
- Beetle and two flies
- Topics:
- Biological illustration--Early works to 1800.
Drawing, German--18th century.
Insects--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800. - Topics:
- Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
- Language:
- No linguistic content; Not applicable
- Genre:
- Watercolors--German--18th century.
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 8 Box 1
- Orbis Record:
- 13081590
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr25617
- Citation:
- Maria Sibylla Merian, Three Bees. Beetle and Two Flies. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16193642
- PID:
- digcoll:4047885
