File:Illustration of a Caiman crocodilus and an Anilius scytale (1701–1705) by Maria Sibylla Merian.jpg

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Dorothea Maria Graff: Spectacled Caiman and a False Coral Snake   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Dorothea Maria Graff  (1678–1743)  wikidata:Q3714363
 
Description -Russian painter, scientific illustrator, naturalist and printmaker
Date of birth/death 2 February 1678 Edit this at Wikidata 5 May 1743 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Saint Petersburg
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artist QS:P170,Q3714363
Title
Spectacled Caiman and a False Coral Snake
label QS:Len,"Spectacled Caiman and a False Coral Snake"
label QS:Lde,"Krokodilkaiman mit Korallenrollschlange"
label QS:Lnl,"Dwergkaaiman met valse koraalslang in de bek"
Description
Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus) and a False Coral Snake (Anilius scytale). formerly attributed to
Maria Sibylla Merian  (1647–1717)  wikidata:Q62530 s:de:Maria Sibylla Merian q:en:Maria Sibylla Merian
 
Maria Sibylla Merian
Alternative names
Maria Sibylla Graff
Description German painter, drawer, aquarellist, printmaker, writer and illustrator
Date of birth/death 2 April 1647 Edit this at Wikidata 13 January 1717 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Frankfurt Amsterdam
Work period from 1670 until 1717
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1670-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1717-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Nuremberg (1670-1685), Frankfurt (1685), Friesland (circa 1685-1695), Amsterdam (1695-1717), Suriname (1699-1701)
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creator QS:P170,Q62530
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Date Circa 1701-1705
Medium watercolor and gloss over etching print on parchment
Dimensions height: 34.6 cm (13.6 in); width: 49.6 cm (19.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,34.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,49.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q42646
Accession number
RL 21218
Place of creation Amsterdam
References RKDimages, Art-work number 186567, as Attributed to Dorothea Maria Henrietta Gsell, Dwergkaaiman met valse koraalslang in de bek, circa 1701-1705, waterverf en glans over gedeelten van een tegendruk van een ets
Source/Photographer Reproduction by the Royal Collection.
Deutsch: aus Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium II., Bildtafel LXX.
English: from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium II., Plate LXX.

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