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‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife’ – Jane Austen was born #onthisday in 1775. These illustrations to Pride and Prejudice were made by Helen Binyon in the 1930s
You can see the work of both Merian and Graff, including these watercolour paintings, in our free display about the collections of the Museum’s founder Hans Sloane in Room 90a: https://t.co/J3wyHL7uhI
Maria Sibylla Merian and her daughter Dorothea Graff were pioneering painters and printmakers famous for their scientific illustrations. In 1699 they travelled to Surinam in South America where they made extensive notes and sketches of the colourful wildlife