Branch of West Indian Cherry with Achilles Morpho Butterfly, Maria Sibylla Merian (1703)
A watercolour of a branch of the West Indian cherry tree (Malpighia punicifolia) with the life stages of an Achilles morpho butterfly (Morpho achilles). This is an adaptation of plate 7 of Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium.
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