Blue Morpho Butterfly on a Yellow Flower

Blue Morpho Butterfly on a Yellow Flower

RP-T-1947-214

• date
• inscription: ‘'t schone Surinaamsche Capelle’

draftsman (artist): attributed to Maria Sibylla Merian

1696

opaque and transparent watercolour, over traces of graphite, on vellum

height 290 mm x width 225 mm

purchase 1947

Public domain

…; Johann Edler Goll von Franckenstein (1722-1785), Amsterdam and Velsen (L. 2987); his son, Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein (1756-1821), Amsterdam and Velsen; his son, Jonkheer Pieter Hendrik Goll van Franckenstein (1787-1832), Amsterdam and Velsen; sale, Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein , Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 1 July 1833 sqq., Album B, no. 14 (‘_Twee stuks Bladen. Als voren, door M.S. Merian_’), fl. 6 to the dealer J.N. Hulswit, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} …; from F.J. Tilburgs (possibly Franciscus Johannes Cornelus Tilburgs (1885-?)), The Hague, fl. 250, to the museum (L.2228), 1947

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