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author: American Museum of Natural History

Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus 1797-1856
birth: July 26, 1797
death: November 4, 1856
Artist and Engraver
The AMNH has 213 small original watercolor studies of spiders made by N. M. Hentz. These studies have scientific value, thought the specimens on which they were based have been destroyed. Art Survey No. 86