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more furry redraws, this time my plumerian, ali

2020 / 2015

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2020-05-05

3/3 Agneta Block was a patron of naturalist/artist Maria Sibylla Merian, who recorded this pineapple w/ exciting cockroaches in her Insects of Surinam, 1705.

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2020-04-22

Agnes Block died this day in 1704. A horticulturist and painter herself, she made her Vijverhof estate a residence for other botanical artists such as Johanna Helena Herolts-Graff, Maria Sibylla Merian, Maria Moninckx, and Alida Withoos.

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2020-04-20

Chinese vase, spectacular. Flowers, even more spectacular. As recorded by Maria Sibylla Merian, artist & naturalist. It's her beautiful day.

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2020-04-02

Some pretty vignettes from 'De Europische insecten' by Maria Sibylla Merian, who was born in 1647

I've just had the most pleasurable and relaxing few minutes flicking through this on and I recommend you do the same!
https://t.co/QaKmoKPjZ8

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2020-04-02

2 avril 1647: naissance de Maria Sibylla Merian, naturaliste et peintre.
Observe, entre autres, la métamorphose des papillons.
➡️Maria, par Jacobus Houbraken
➡️Gravure sur cuivre coloriée à la main, 1705. De Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, planche XX (Thysania agrippina).

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2020-04-02

Emerian, my OC . Wanted to do a warm up in a sketchy style.

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2020-03-12

Maria Sibylla Merian, Plate 12 from ‘Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium’ (1705)
(Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt)

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2020-02-22

Specimen entries from "Historiae Naturalis De Piscibus Et Cetis Libri V" by Jan Jonston. Frankfurt. Merian,1650.

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2020-01-15

Le 1717 nous quitte Maria Sibylla Merian, naturaliste et peintre allemande. -Plantains and Caligo, 1705. Rose with Butterfly, Larva and Pupa, 1679

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2020-01-14

Niellen Leuvaarden (Leuvaarden-Roche), the pet NPC of the party in Witcher: Eclipse! He's half-Temerian, half-Nilfgaardian spy working to take down the Nilfgaardian empire, and the son of someone you may know

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2020-01-05

Just heard on PM talking about in . Feel an overwhelming need to borrow the book which has never been borrowed! I just love illustrations such as this by Maria Sibylla Merian, they almost always feature a caterpillar.

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2019-07-13

Welcome to DISSONANCE! We are a forum-based roleplaying group with characters from Greek, Norse, Celtic, Sumerian, and Egyptian pantheons! Roles like Hades, Ra, Tiamat, Medb, and more are just waiting to be filled!
https://t.co/ieLLZSQLTy

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2019-04-18

Flowers in a Chinese vase. And some insects. By Maria Sibylla Merian, artist & naturalist, who was born on this day in 1647.

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2019-04-03

And it was Maria Sibylla Merian, a German-born naturalist, who documented Metamorphosis for the first time.
In 1799, she sailed to Suriname from Europe looking for insects - something no ladies were permitted to do back then.The results were a spectacular treasure for Science!

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2019-04-02

Spiders, ants and hummingbird on a branch of a guava - Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705. (Colored copper engraving from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLIII.)

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2019-03-30

Défi de : je choisis Maria Sibylla Merian, l'une des premières femmes illustratrices dans le domaine de l’histoire naturelle. https://t.co/AO6c5tYhSf

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2019-03-09