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264 FEMALE ENGRAVERS.
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painter having d of some and flowers encoura time and afterwards ed fruit , her her married talent step-father for Jacob drawing who Murel was tau , g happ a ht her p y ta dis t b le
first covere rudiments of the g art . y With the * encouragement , of his instruction she made a surprising progress , and soon arrived at a and hich
proficiency in painting flowers , fruit , insects , reptiles , w astonished her master , who , to render her perfect excelle , placed d in under
insects the care . of It Abraham was not long Mignon before , who she partieulary arrived at a perfection painting little short of her second instructorwhennot satisfied with the
deworks scription of of the insects natural and historians their metamorp , of her , hosis own which time she , she found formed in the the
herself project accompanied . of The giving wi first th to p volume la the tes world from of this her her interesting own own ob desi servations gns work , partl was and y published researches etched by in , The
M of German lan aria the ts on Sib , Insects at w ylla hic Nuremberg Merian h of they Europe , feed wi in . th " , 1679 dra their The wn , under generation second from the volume nature title and appeared and changes of " exp , lained in and History 1683 the by .
p Her zeal in pursuit of her favorite study induced her to undertake and a rep voyage tiles of to Surinam that country , for the . After sole purpose an absence of pain of tin two g the years insec she ts
returned 1705 ubl to ished Holland an accoun , laden t of with them the at A fruits msterdam of her , in voyage Latin , , entitled and in " Dissertatio p di Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Suricontains less than latesall
namensium . " This work no sixty p , very addi finel tional y execut ed tes ; and by t he la daug tter h ter tion D w oro as th ea gmen Graff ted whose with twe wor lve k
p , , however There is are very two inferior large volumes to that of of Madame her mother Merian 's . ' s in the British the in
Mu ts seum of : Surinam one containing They the wer insec e purchased ts of Euro at pe a the great other price , by Sir
sec . Hans Madame Soane , Merian who is married said to have in g 1665 iven five John guineas Andrew for each Graff drawing an in- . , , il of , Murel
This genious clever artist woman of Nuremberg died at , who Amsterdam had also in been 1717 a pup aged seventy ' s . , excelled miniature
leaving one daughter , named Dorothea , who as a lished painter a , and third aecompanied volume of insects _'her mother the p to lates Surinam being engraved . She also from pub the
remaining Elizabeth celebrated desi Sop gns hie for of Cheron her Madame knowled le JFIay Merian , , a of native . literature of Paris and , born her skill in 1648 as a , was ge
p Cheron ainter , and a painter engraver in . enamel She was , and instructed made rap by id progress her father with , Henry her
pencil presented , her by portrait Le Brun s being to the especiall Royal y admired Academy . of In Arts 1676 at she Paris was ,
where she was honorably received as a member , for when only fourteen years of age her name was already famous ; and sub-
264 Female Engravers.
264 FEMALE ENGRAVERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/48/
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