'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' Size:XL: 100 x 75cm like the Camenae

like the Camenae

'My Second Sermon'

The lower room features a fireplace with a stone seat

to take her away

Peter Reid

'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' Size:XL: 100 x 75cm like the CamenaeStudy of a harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) on a citron fruit (Cirtus medica) with, elsewhere, a moth in stages of development. Plate 28 from the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). Inscribed lower left: 'J. Mulder Sculp.', and with annotations by Sir Hans Sloane (1660 1753) The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla