Flowers, butterflies, and insects: all 154 engravings from "Erucarum Ortus"
(2013)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla, 2013
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780486155517 (electronic bk.) MWT11604882, 048615551X (electronic bk.) 11604882
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Fine-line images of roses, butterflies, tulips, caterpillars, and other specimens of plant and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. These plates are considered among the finest achievements of a great age of floral painting and the engraver's art. Reprinted from the classic, influential works of the famed artist/entomologist Merian (1647-1717). New English captions
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