Indian pepper with examples of a butterfly, chryslais and caterpillar, Maria Sibylla Merian, between 1701 and 1705

From an album of 91 drawings entitled 'merian's drawings of surinam insects &c'; the plant bearing red and green peppers watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white, and with pen and grey ink, on vellum. In 1905 published in women painters of the world, from the time of caterina vigri, 1413-1463, to rosa bonheur and the present day, by walter shaw sparrow, the art and life library, hodder & stoughton, 27 paternoster row, london. Object Type: drawing. Genre: floral painting. Date: between 1701 and 1705. Dimensions: height: 36.8 cm (14.4 in); width: 24.9 cm (9.8 in). Medium: watercolour and bodycolour. Collection: British Museum. Maria Sibylla Merian - plant study with peppers