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Fish
Title
[Fish] [art original] / M.S.M. [Fish] / M.S.M.
Production
[Germany or Netherlands?], [not after 1717]
Physical Description
2 drawings : watercolor ; sheet 8.4 x 15 cm and sheet 9.2 x 15 cm, mounted to 28 x 22 cm
Medium
laid paper mounted on blue laid paper.
Notes
Titles from local catalog card.
Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials.
Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date.
Formerly page 37 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Provenance
Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
Summary
Two watercolor drawings, each depicting a single unidentified fish.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
March 09, 2017
References
Maria Sibylla Merian, Fish. Fish. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Maria Sibylla Merian, Fish. Fish. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Watercolors - German - 18th century.
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