num_pages: 160
description: Fine-line images of roses, butterflies, tulips, caterpillars, and other specimens of plant and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. These plates are considered among the finest achievements of a great age of floral painting and the engraver's art. Reprinted from the classic, influential works of the famed artist/entomologist Merian (1647–1717). New English captions.
language: English
title: Flowers, Butterflies and Insects: All 154 Engravings from "Erucarum Ortus"
titlecomplete: Flowers, Butterflies and Insects: All 154 Engravings from "Erucarum Ortus" (Dover Pictorial Archive)
genres: Nature, Art, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 21
publisher: Dover Publications