Title: Study of Capers, Gorse, and a Beetle
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1693
Artist:  Maria Sibylla Merian 
Artist bio: German, 1647–1717 (active Holland)
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Watercolor, white gouache, on vellum
Dimensions: sheet: 14 x 10 5/16 in. (35.5 x 26.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2012
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Insects, term: Flowers, term: Plants