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	Maria Sibylla Merian (Dutch, 1647–1717) Black Tegu Lizard Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache, on vellum 13 x 17 in. (329 x 430 mm) Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978; 2001.10 See CORSAIR catalog record for this item » This drawing served as the model in reverse for the engraving that appears as plate 70 in the third edition of Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (The Hague, 1726; first edition, Amsterdam, 1705). About this department List of works Text only list Search images Order images

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