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]]> https://www.themariasibyllameriansociety.humanities.uva.nl/?page_id=645#comment-1 Sun, 23 Sep 2018 04:56:51 +0000 http://www.themariasibyllameriansociety.humanities.uva.nl/?page_id=645#comment-1 […] At this time, women rarely received royal or government funding to travel abroad for any kind of scientific exploration. Scientific expeditions at this period of time were not common, in fact, even for men. Maria continued to draw, paint, and research the natural world, while raising two daughters in Amsterdam. The Dutch governor Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck, who recognized the importance of her work and contribution potential, worked on her behalf to promote her interests. Then, in 1699, the governor of the Dutch colony Surinam on the northern coast of South America (presently the French, Dutch and British Guianas) offered Maria a grant to study and draw there in South America, with her daughter. This was a serious venture and not a pleasure trip for Maria. She sold 255 of her own drawings and paintings to secure all the needed funds for this five year adventure. About her purpose of exploration Maria wrote: “I had found innumerable other insects, but finally if here their origin and their reproduction is unknown, it begs the question as to how they transform, starting from caterpillars and chrysalises and so on. All this has, at the same time, led me to undertake a long dreamed of journey to Suriname.” (from her letters) […]

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