Magdalena Fürstin (1652–1717) was a German artist and hand-colourist.^[1] She was from Nuremberg,^[2] and was a pupil of John Fischer and Maria Sybilla Merian.^[3]

She was born into a middle class family and was the youngest of three daughters that they had. Her father was in the business of buying and selling art works.^[4]

Her name appears as a plate illuminator in Basilius Besler's famous codex of the plant specimens in the Garden of Eichstatt, Hortus Eystettensis: Studien zur Entstehung des Kupferstichwerks und zum Exemplar des Andrea Vendramin (or Hortus Eystettensis: Studies on the creation of the copper engraving and the copy of Andrea Vendramin)^[2][5] She worked on the book for five years,^[2] and the copy she worked on is currently in the Austrian National Library in Vienna.^[6]

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