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Illustration from 'Insects of Surinam', 1726 (hand-coloured engraving)

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Illustration from 'Insects of Surinam', 1726 (hand-coloured engraving)

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Merian, Maria Sibylla Graff (1647-1717) / Swiss

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1726 AD (C18th AD)

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Plate 55 from Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium (1726) by A. Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) & Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-1773).

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