[Three bees] [art original] / M.S.M. [Beetle and two flies] / M.S.M.

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Title: [Three bees] [art original] / M.S.M. [Beetle and two flies] / M.S.M.
Alternative Title: Beetle and two flies
Creator: Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1717]
Publication Place: Germany or Netherlands?
Abstract: Two watercolor drawings, one depicting three bees and the other depicting a small wasp(?), a rhinoceros(?) beetle, and an unidentified insect
Description: 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].
Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
Provenance: 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.
Extent: 2 drawings : sheet 10.2 x 13.6 cm and sheet 10.4 x 11.3 cm, mounted to 28 x 22 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Watercolors German 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper mounted on blue laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Insects
Subjects: Insects
German > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Maria Sibylla Merian, Three Bees. Beetle and Two Flies. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.