Maria Sibylla Merian, Baltasar Scheid und Richard Bradley - Die Künstlerin und Naturforscherin, ein Kaufmann und ein Botaniker. (2007)
This paper describes the contacts of a Dutch trader and of an English botanist to Maria Sibylla Merian, the famous artist and natural scientist. She published her observations of the metamorphosis of butterflies and moths in three books: Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung in quarto (I, Nürnberg 1679; II, Frankfurt/M. 1683); a third part she prepared but died before publication (Amsterdam 1717, posthum); and the famous Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium in folio (Amsterdam 1705). Merian lived since 1691 in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam trader Baltasar Scheid wrote in several letters to J.G.Volkamer about Merian’s Metamorphosis, desribing in a few words its development from the early beginning to the end. With the details given by Scheid it is possible to specify the time of production of this book. Comparing the letters of B.Scheid with those of M.S.Merian who also wrote to Volkamer, it is obvious that the person named „Schrey“ or „Schey“ by her and who was up to now not identified (he had to send natural produce and new printed copperplates of her Metamorphosis to Volkamer), is the Amsterdam trader Baltasar Scheid. It was the London apothecary James Petiver (Merian had good connections to him) who helped the English botanist Richard Bradley to come in contact with M.S.Merian. Bradley probably ordered at least one painting for his Historia plantarum succulentarum (London 1716-1727) from Merian. One of the copperplates in this work looks very similar to one of Merian’s aquarells. On his journey to Holland Bradley visited Merian 1714 (three years after Petiver) in Amsterdam. From there he wrote enthusiastically to Petiver about all her original paintings and mentioned the prices Merian asked for. Prices for original paintings of Maria Sibylla Merian were not yet known, only those for her printed books.
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