The Hawks-bill Turtle (Testudo caretta)

published 1731-1743

Mark Catesby

Artist, English, 1679 - 1749

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.7 x 35.2 cm (10 1/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 38.1 x 54.1 cm (15 x 21 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.163.47

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Natural History, Vol. vol.2, no. 39


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green, Virginia; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1771

  • Catesby, Mark. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. London: 1771.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: MC; lower right in brown wash: 39; stamped lower right on verso: Catesby's / CAROLINA / 1731

Wikidata ID

Q74894853


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