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Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650

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  • A country scene with many activities depicted: these include, from left to right, picking cherries, bathing, hay-making, hunting, and eating and drinking. Engraving by M. Merian after S. Vrancx.
  • Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende Warhafftige vnd vollkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften / Insulen / Königreichen vnd Provintzien / Seecusten / fliessenden vnd stehenden Wassern / Port vnd Anländungen / Gebürgen / Thälern / Stätt / Flecken vnd Wohnplätzen / zusampt der Natur vnd Eygenschafft dess Erdrichs / der Lufft / der Mineren vnd Metallen / der brennenden Vulcanen oder Schwefelbergen / der Siedenden vnd anderer heilsamen Quellen / wie auch der Thier / Vögel / Fisch vnd Gewürm in denselben / sampt andern wunderbaren Sreaturen vnd Miraculn der Natur / in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyes. Dess-gleichen gründlicher Bericht von der innwohner Beschaffenheit / Sitten / Qualitäten / Policey und Götzendienst / Leben vnd Wesen / barbarischer Unwissenheit vnd vnerhörter Grausankeit dess meisten Theils dieser wilden Leute / sampt Unterscheyd der Nationen / Sprachen vnd Gebräuchen. Item, historische vnd aussführliche Relation 38. fürnembster Schiffarten vnterschiedlicher Völcker in West-Indien / von der ersten Entdeckung durch Christophorum Columbum / in 150. Jahren / vollbracht / [Johann Ludwig Gottfried].
  • Robert Fludd. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper after M. Merian, 1626.
  • Above, portrait of Daniel Sennert in a roundel; centre, a man representing Experience holds the staff of Aesculapius and a lily, while a woman representing Reason holds a balance and a torch; below, Hippocrates and Hermes shake hands, representing the union of herbal and chemical medicine. Engraving by M. Merian, ca. 1631.
  • A field surrounded by wooded hills, with a saffron crocus in the foreground and verses below. Etching by Matthäus Merian the elder ca. 1646.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    The city of Bologna. Engraving by M. Merian, 164-.

    Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650. | Date: [between 1640 and 1649?] | Reference: 2992652i
    • Books

    Florilegium renovatum et auctum / [by M. Merian] [Anon.] variorum maximeque rariorum germinum, florum ac plantarum, quas pulchritudo, fragrantia, usus, varietas, differntia commendat, & non tantùm noster hic, sed & adversus veteribusque ignotus orbis è foecundo suo procreat gremio, eicones elegantissimae, summa cum diligentia ad vivum ... expositae: additis eorum proprijs, veris ac genuinis nominibus.

    Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623. | Date: 1641
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    A procession in Paris, 1612, to mark dynastic marriages joining France and Spain. Etching by M. Merian after C. Chastillon, 16--.

    Chastillon, Claude, 1559 or 1560-1616. | Date: [1615?] | Reference: 2970951i
    • Books

    The whole of nature and the mirror of art : images of alchemy from the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library.

    Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library. | Date: [2006], ©2006
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    Arnold Weickard. Line engraving by M. Merian, 1626.

    Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650. | Date: 1626 | Reference: 9580i
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