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Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
Wallflower with blue butterfly c.1705?
Watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic on vellum | 37.9 x 27.7 cm (vellum sheet) | RCIN 921223
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
Wallflower with blue butterfly c.1705?
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A watercolour of a Wallflower (Erysimum cheiri) with an unidentified blue butterfly. The butterfly also appears in a drawing jointly attributed to Merian and Willem de Heer in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (see Kurt Wettengl, ed., Maria Sibylla Merian. Artist and Naturalist 1647-1717, Frankfurt 1998, fig. 32). The Wallflower also appears in a drawing signed by Merian's daughter Johanna Herolt (see ibid. cat. 120).
Provenance
Dr Richard Mead (1673–1754); his sale (London, Abraham Langford, 13–16 January 1755, lot 66), where purchased by an unknown collector; sold 15 June 1768 (London, Paterson and Eve, lot 572), where purchased by Sir John Hill via Wilson; George III by c.1810
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Medium and techniques
Watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic on vellum
Measurements
37.9 x 27.7 cm (vellum sheet)
Other number(s)
RL 21223
