Merian Insects of Surinam Vintage Illustration Pack, 16 Printable Plates

A themed pack of 16 printable vintage plates from Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Amsterdam, 1705), her famous book of Surinam butterflies, moths and tropical plants, made for junk journals, scrapbooking, card making, collage, decoupage and paper crafts. Print them at home, cut them out and layer them into your projects. The files are full-size original scans, so they are also big enough to frame as wall art.

Plates included: Pineapple (Plate 1), Barbados Cherry (Plate 7), Frangipani (Plate 8), Pomegranate (Plate 9), Coral Tree (Plate 11), Banana (Plate 12), Passion Flower (Plate 21), Red Lily (Plate 22), Grape Vine (Plate 34), Papaya (Plate 40), Annatto (Plate 44), Peacock Flower (Plate 45), Bitter Orange (Plate 52), Blue Morpho (Plate 53), Water Hyacinth (Plate 56), Owl Butterfly (Plate 60).

Print size: Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 6,000–6,100 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about 13 × 20 in at 300 dpi (based on the smallest plate; most go larger), and down to A4, US Letter or A5 with no loss. The shapes vary slightly because they're original book pages.

Files: 16 high-resolution JPGs, about 6,000–6,100 px on the long edge (34 MB total), delivered as one zip download.

Source: Hand-coloured engravings after Maria Sibylla Merian's watercolours, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library scan of the 1705 Amsterdam edition, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain: Merian died in 1717 and the book was published in 1705, so it has been out of copyright worldwide for centuries.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.