Two butterflies, one bright blue morpho, above a pomegranate branch with red flowers, a split-open fruit and a caterpillar, in an antique hand-coloured plate.

A single blue morpho butterfly with brown-edged wings on a white background. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

No. 102 of 248 · The Natural History Series

Pomegranate and Blue Morpho

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Maria Sibylla Merian's blue morpho butterflies hover over a pomegranate branch in bloom and in fruit, with a caterpillar resting on its stem. Merian sailed to Suriname at fifty-two to draw insects alongside the plants they feed on, and this plate comes from the book she made there in 1705. For someone who loves nature and old botanical art.

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From the great natural-history books of the 1700s to the 1900s / Pomegranate and Blue Morpho / Punica granatum / The blue morpho flashes brilliant blue as it flies, then vanishes when it closes its brown wings. Merian painted it beside a pomegranate, in flower and in fruit. / Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, 1705 / Maria Sibylla Merian sailed to Suriname at 52 to draw insects with the plants they feed on.

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