Margaux Shraiman is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Utrecht. She is a part of the NWO VICI research project ‘The Dutch Global Age. Worldly images and images of the World in Netherlandish Art’. Her specific subproject will identify and decipher the ways in which Nether-landish artists made sense of and represented the diverse natural environments they encountered around the world and how this was adapted for a global audience. Specifically, she is looking into how the reproduction and dissemination of naturalist illustrations from the Cape colony reflect the broader practices of colonial botany within the global early modern Dutch colonial network. Previously she completed the J.C.M. Warnsinck fellowship at Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam, and worked as a curatorial research intern at both the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin and Het Scheepvaartmuseum