[Three bees] [art original] / M.S.M. [Beetle and two flies] / M.S.M.Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717, artist[not after 1717]zxxTwo watercolor drawings, one depicting three bees and the other depicting a small wasp(?), a rhinoceros(?) beetle, and an unidentified insectTitles from local catalog card.Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials.Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date.Formerly page 21 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].Matted to 49 x 37 cm.Original case shelved separately.