Crown imperial lily, Fritillaria imperialis, and tulips, Tulipa gesneriana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Daniel Rabel after a botanical illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian from Pierre Joseph Buchoz’s edition of Histoire Generale des Insectes de Surinam et de tout l’Europe, Troisieme edition revue, corrigee et considerablement augmentee par M. Buchoz, Paris, 1771.

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