Maria Sybilla Merian: Watercolor, touched with pen and grey ink, over black chalk, on vellum; c 1701-1705
A gourd-like plant, bearing yellow knobbly fruit (the Cocoa Tree), from an album of 91 drawings entitled 'Merian's Drawings of Surinam Insects &c'; and with examples of pupa, caterpillar, chrysalis, and moth, depicting the life cycle of the insect
