[Stingray] [art original] / M.S.M. [Crab] / M.S.M.Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717, artist[not after 1717]zxxTwo watercolor drawings, one depicting a skate and the other depicting a hermit crab in a shellTitles from local catalog card.Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials; top drawing is mounted upside down, causing the initials to appear inverted in upper right.Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date.Formerly on page 29 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.