A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Merian, (Madame)
MERIAN (MADAME), see Gravio; born at Frankfort, 1647.
Famous for painting flowers, &c. in water colours; look several journeys, to forward her favourite study, particularly to the West Indies, where, during two months stay at Surinam, she painted after nature all the insects she could discover, which were published, with explanations in Latin, at Amsterdam, 1705, folio, and twice reprinted, in Latin and French. She published also a book of Caterpillars, their changes, and the plants they feed upon, which were much admired; and two on European insects. She died at Amsterdam, 1717.
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