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A 1679 natural history volume by Maria Sibylla Merian, held by Heidelberg University Library, with hand-engraved plates of plants paired with insects at various life stages. The pictures show caterpillars, pupae, moths and flies set on branches, flowers and leaves, drawn with fine parallel hatching and no colour, offering a designer clear botanical-entomological line work to adapt for pattern, border or diagram use.
