drawing;
album
- Museum number
- SL,5276.15
- Description
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The life cycle of the butterfly and the moth, from an album of 160 drawings entitled 'Merian's Drawings of European Insects &c'; with examples of two caterpillars and two chrysalises on a white-flowered stem, a beetle on a leaf
Watercolour and bodycolour, on vellum
- Production date
- 1670-1682 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 173 millimetres
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Width: 265 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred to P&D 11 March 1885 (see note on fly-leaf of album SL,5275.1-91). Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5276.15
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: N,02.15
