Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9939
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‘Bird-eating spider with humming bird’
Date
1705
Creator
Joseph Mulder (1659 - 1718, Dutch) , Printmaker
After
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717, German) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
55255
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 510mm
width (print): 350mm
width (print): 350mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of a bird-eating South American spider (a tarantula or possibly the Goliath birdeater Theraphosa blondi) with humming bird prey.
Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). Showing the inscription lower left “P Sluiter Sculp.”
The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in South America from 1699-1701, where she recorded and collected butterflies and other natural history specimens.
Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). Showing the inscription lower left “P Sluiter Sculp.”
The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in South America from 1699-1701, where she recorded and collected butterflies and other natural history specimens.
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