Poivre d’Inde, from Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam

Plate 55 from a 1771 edition of Maria Sibylla Merian’s Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l’Europe. The hand-coloured engraving shows a pepper plant, poivre d’Inde, heavy with red and orange fruit, with caterpillars and a large moth among its leaves.

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