Drawings
The Balli Plant, Red Ginger Plant with Wasp
- Date
- 1705
- Accession number
- 2024.24.7
- Maker
- Maria Sibylla Merian(Opens in new tab) (German, 1647–1717)
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20 × 13 3/4 in. (50.8 × 34.9 cm.) frame: 31 1/8 × 24 1/8 × 1 3/4 in. (79.1 × 61.3 × 4.4 cm.)
- Medium
- watercolor over counterproof print
- Description
- Plate 54 from The Insects of Suriname (Amsterdam, 1705)
- Credit
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of James and Esther Cavanaugh
- Department
- European Art
- Find out more
- View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
