Artist: Maria Sybilla Merian
Date: 1705
Museum: The Royal Society (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Paper
Study of a bird-eating South American spider (a tarantula or possibly the Goliath birdeater Theraphosa blondi) with humming bird prey. Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in South America from 1699-1701, where she recorded
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