There is a nice article from the Huffington Post: This 17th Century Scientific Illustrator Loved Butterflies Before It Was Cool, by Priscilla Frank. Merian is of interest to us as the painter of the most famous image of the white witch. The fact that the immature stages shown are not plausible (explanation on images page) is her error (or artistic license?). But the article emphasizes the bigger picture (so to speak), the very fact of metamorphosis, not well understood at the time.
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