Bird-eating spider with humming bird Product:Postcard Below that is a landscape

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View of St Giles without Cripplegate and the base of a tower in the churchyard

Bird-eating spider with humming bird Product:Postcard Below that is a landscapeStudy of a bird eating South American spider (a tarantula or possibly the Goliath birdeater Theraphosa blondi) with humming bird prey. 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). Showing the inscription lower left 'P Sluiter Sculp.' The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in