[Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium. Dutch] Maria Sybilla Meriaen Over de voortteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche insecten
Source place of publication:
t'Amsterdam
Source publisher:
by Joannes Oosterwyk, boekverkoper op den Dam in de Boekzael: Alwaer dit werk, ... te bekomen zyn
Source date:
1719
notes:
Image is identified as a Surinamese crocodile; it is the spectacled caiman, Caiman crocodilus. Meri an first published Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium in 1705; in 1719, her daughters brought out a second edition in Dutch and in Latin, reusing the original plates and adding 12 more plates and corresponding text. This new edition was created by pressing each still wet image onto a sheet of clean paper, creating a "counter-impres sion" which was reversed from the original, thus producing two prints from one inking. Notes on the plants contributed by Caspar Commelin. Image placed horizontally on page.
