[White moth and beetle] [art original]Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717, artist[not after 1717]zxxTwo watercolor drawings: above, a white moth on a leaf and a beetle; below, a single beetleTitles from local catalog card.Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials; bottom drawing is mounted upside down, causing the initials to appear inverted in upper right.Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date.Formerly page 17 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].