Brafman, David and Stephanie Schrader - Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. An extraordinary little museum exhibit catalog and presenting details from an original text in Dutch, published in 1719, that came into the museum through extraordinary means in 1989. Short 32mo softcover copy, with illustrated flexible wraps, in gate-fold. 22 full-color plates, in detail, drawn from her Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname. The publisher's wrapper-blurb notes that the artist, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), was one of the first observers to comprehend and record the metamorphoses of insects, most notably the emergence of the butterfly from its caterpillar and chrysalis phases. She began to draw insects at the age of 13 and eventually sold all her belongings to fund a trip to South America where she began first to draw and then eventually have engraved a host of new flora and fauna.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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