Merian

Merian Sibilla Merian, a German naturalist, author, and illustrator was born in Germany. Frankfurt was a small town in Germany where she was raised. They had a wide family that were either an engraver and or a publisher. After the death of her stepfather that taught her much botony and engraving, she was later very enthusiastic to develope a several scientific and observational flower engravings. "In the 1720's Merian had established her reputation of being a famous botonist and she her book was a three-volume set of flower engravings." Merian would later eventually create a second three-volume work emphasized on merian, surinam, later, works, three-volume, publisher, life, germany, flower, engravings, called, work, windsor, wide, very, united, town, taught, study, stepfather, states, stamps, sold, small, sibilla, shown, several, set, service, second, scientific, royal, reputation, raised, print, precise