Ant Neckties
Product Description
The industrious ants printed on this rich silk tie are tiny details taken from an exquisite 18th century botanical illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian. The pattern is inspired by plates found in Merian’s book, an edition of which is in the collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute.
Available in Nasturtium Gold or Stone Blue.
Maria Sibylla Merian was a pioneering woman of art and science—a unique achievement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Merian became an accomplished botanical painter and entomologist at an early age. Her passion for insects led her to groundbreaking discoveries in metamorphosis. Later in her life, Merian displayed a then-unheard-of independence when she and her daughter Dorothea left Holland for Dutch Suriname, in northeastern South America, where they studied and painted exotic insects. Two years later, Maria and Dorothea returned to Amsterdam and, with Maria’s other daughter, Johanna, worked together to produce one of the greatest illustrated natural-history treatises of all time, The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, first published in 1705.
Available in Nasturtium Gold or Stone Blue.
Maria Sibylla Merian was a pioneering woman of art and science—a unique achievement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Merian became an accomplished botanical painter and entomologist at an early age. Her passion for insects led her to groundbreaking discoveries in metamorphosis. Later in her life, Merian displayed a then-unheard-of independence when she and her daughter Dorothea left Holland for Dutch Suriname, in northeastern South America, where they studied and painted exotic insects. Two years later, Maria and Dorothea returned to Amsterdam and, with Maria’s other daughter, Johanna, worked together to produce one of the greatest illustrated natural-history treatises of all time, The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, first published in 1705.
