Drawing, album, circa 1710

Examples of a bug, two snakes, two frogs, a crab and a lizard eating ants, from an album entitled 'merian's drawings of surinam insects &c'; the lizard on a small stretch of land, surrounded by water watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white (partly oxidised), on vellum. Date: circa 1710. Dimensions: Height: 301 mm; Width: 374 mm. Medium: wool. Collection: British Museum.