Drawings

The Balli Plant, Red Ginger Plant with Wasp

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
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)

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