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\n\t\t\t\tWHAT THEY HAD IN COMMON \u2013 WHAT SEPARATED THEM\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>
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Outline \u2013 Second Part<\/strong><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> Success, Crisis and Separate Ways<\/p>\n

2.1<\/strong> The \u201cGr\u00e4ffin\u2019s\u201d Last Years in Nuremberg until 1682<\/p>\n

2.2<\/strong> A Long Family Visit by Jacob Marrell<\/p>\n

2.3<\/strong> Graff\u2019s First Master Etchings<\/p>\n

2.4<\/strong> Return to Frankfurt<\/p>\n

2.5<\/strong> Graff\u2019s Commuter Years until 1685<\/p>\n

2.6<\/strong> Months of Change 1685 \/ 1686<\/p>\n

2.7<\/strong> Breakdown of the Marriage in the Labadist Colony in Friesland in 1686<\/p>\n

2.8<\/strong> Continued Links with Nuremberg<\/p>\n

2.9<\/strong> Merian\u2019s and Graff\u2019s Two Daughters \u2013 Artists Finding Their Own Way far afield<\/p>\n

Abbrevations of Archives etc.<\/p>\n

Abbreviations of Various Fields of Literature<\/p>\n

Endnotes<\/p>\n

Additions to the Literature References in the First Part of this Essay<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Everyday life in Nuremberg around 1680, depicted in excerpts from the \u201cLarge City Prospects\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Women on the Margins<\/strong>
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But she is a harder person to pin down …, since she left behind no autobiography, confessional letters, or artist\u2019s self-portrait. Instead we must make use of the observing \u201dI\u201d in her entomological texts and fill in the picture by attending to the people and places around her.<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
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Drei Frauenleben<\/strong>
\nTranslation by Wolfgang Kaiser (Lit. 1996), p. 170<\/em><\/p>\n

Aber sie l\u00e4\u00dft sich schwieriger fassen \u2026, denn sie hat keine Autobiographie, keine Briefe mit pers\u00f6nlichen Bekenntnissen, kein Selbstbildnis als K\u00fcnstlerin hinterlassen. Statt dessen m\u00fcssen wir uns auf das beobachtende \u201eIch\u201c in ihren entomologischen Texten st\u00fctzen und uns mit Hilfe der Menschen in ihrer Umgebung und der Orte, an denen sie sich aufhielt, eine Vorstellung von ihr machen.<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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2. SUCCESS, CRISIS AND SEPARATE WAYS<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
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2.1 THE \u201cGR\u00c4FFIN\u2019S\u201d LAST YEARS IN NUREMBERG UNTIL 1682<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
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Towards the late 1670s, Maria Sibylla, as a wife with an acknowledged \u201cregulated, well maintained household\u201d<\/em> (Joachim von Sandrart) (1) had to cope with an enormous burden of work. She was a mother, business woman, draftswoman, painter, embroiderer, copperplate etcher, teacher, observer of nature, collector, taxidermist, pigment specialist, and author of non-fiction books, all at the same time. Without continuous support from those around her, she would never have managed to complete three printed works within only four years: in 1677, the second part of the Flower Book, in 1679, the first Caterpillar Book, and in 1680, the third part of the Flower Book published together with the first two parts as the complete edition of the \u201cNew Flower Book\u201d).<\/p>\n

Her husband must have been her most important helper, contributing more than the guarantee of indispensable legal and financial backing for his wife\u2019s publications. As her publisher named in the title copperplate etching or on the title page (2) (\u201cto be found with Graff in Nuremberg \u2026\u201d<\/em>) his tasks included:<\/p>\n