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Malaria likely cut her expedition short & forced her return to Holland in 1701. She sold her collected specimen & in 1705 published Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium. ⁠

⁠ She suffered a stroke in 1715 & died a pauper in 1717. Her daughter Dorothea published her Erucarum Ortus Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis, posthumously. Both Dorothea & Johanna followed their mother's lead & became botanical illustrators.⁠