drawing;
album
- Museum number
- SL,5276.95
- Description
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Rosa multiplex media, depicting the life cycle of the moth, from an album of 160 drawings entitled 'Merian's Drawings of European Insects &c'; with examples of three caterpillars and chrysalises on the stem of a pink rose, four flies to right
Watercolour and bodycolour, on vellum
- Production date
- 1691-1699 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 149 millimetres
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Width: 273 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2011-12, 19 Dec - May : London, British Museum, Enlightenment Gallery
- 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,5276.95
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: N,02.95