MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
09891
Record number:
09891-36
JCB call number:
J719 M561o / 3-SIZE
Image title:
[Citron fruit and insects]
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Johannes Oosterwijk]
Image date:
[1719]
Image function:
plate [28]
Technique:
etching, engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
33.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
23.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
51.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
34.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Branch of a citrus tree showing fruit. Includes leaves, flowers, buds, and stems of the citron. Also includes moth, insect laying eggs, egg case, and a harlequin beetle.
Source creator:
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Source Title:
[Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium. Dutch] Maria Sybilla Meriaen Over de voortteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche insecten
Source place of publication:
t'Amsterdam
Source publisher:
by Joannes Oosterwyk, boekverkoper op den Dam in de Boekzael: Alwaer dit werk, ... te bekomen zyn
Source date:
1719
notes:
Citron fruit [Citrus medica L.], also known as Apple of Sodom, is shown with a shield mantis [Choeradodis rhombicollis?] and its egg case [ootheca]. The forelegs of the male harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) is nearly twice as long as those of the female beetle. On the leaf above is the moth [Phobetron hipparchia] with its cocoon and larva. Merian first published Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium in 1705; in 1719, her daughters brought out a second edition in Dutch and in Latin reusing the original plates and adding 12 more plates and corresponding text. This new edition was created by pressing each still wet image onto a sheet of clean paper, creating a "counter-impression" which was reversed from the original, thus producing two prints from one inking. Notes on the plants contributed by Caspar Commelin.
Time Period:
1701-1750
References:
Stearn, W.T. "Maria Sibylla Merian ... as a botanical artist," Taxon, vol. 31, no. 3 (Aug. 1982), p. 529-534
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired after 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Flora and fauna

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