Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Merian, Maria Sibylla |
Other names |
Graff, Maria Sibylla (married name) |
Life Dates |
1647-1717 Born: Germany Died: Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Nationality |
German |
Occupation |
naturalist painter engraver Female artist |
Notes |
Maria and her daughters, Johanna Helena and Dorothea Maria, were known as unusually enterprising and adventurous women for their time, who greatly influenced the artistic standards of natural history illustration and helped transform the field of entomology. |
Role |
Artist |
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2016.7.2 - Print
"Study of Butterflies, Caterpillar, Pupa, and Chrysalis," hand-colored copperplate engraving from "Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (Transformations of the insects of Suriname)," by Maria Sibylla Merian. Amsterdam, 1719. Though the odds were stacked against her as a woman, naturalist and illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian, is among the most important contributors to the field of natural history. In 1699 she traveled to South America with ...
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2017.10.8 - Print
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