'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Size:S: 45 x 30cm a look that was achieved

a look that was achieved by wearing crinolines

a satirical poem'

Young children washing themselves in enamal basins during World War Two

View of the King's Theatre

'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Size:S: 45 x 30cm a look that was achievedStudy of leaf cutter ants, a tarantula spider and other South American insects. Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in South America from 1699 1701, where she recorded and collected butterflies and other natural history specimens.