A blue honey creeper on a thistle, by Maria Sibylla Merian

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A blue honey creeper on a thistle, copulating snails below. Merian, Maria Sibylla (German, 1647-1717). Watercolour on vellum, height 372 mm, width 283 mm.

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Accession Number: PD.467-1963
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 782 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 708.71kB
Captured: 2007:12:12 13:21:01

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17th Century 18th Century birds botanical butterfly Fitz_PDP flowers German Maria Sibylla Merian Merian Other Keywords plants prickly snails thistle vellum watercolour

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