Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10018
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    ‘Testudo granosa’ [Indian flapshell turtle]

    Date
    1792
    Creator
    Johann Friedrich Volckart (1750 - 1812, German) , Printmaker
    After
    Friedrich Wilhelm Wunder (1742 - 1828, German) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X51/7
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 266mm
    width (print): 212mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological study of the Indian flapshell turtle Lissemys punctata. View of the whole freshwater animal, showing the back or upper shell, with limbs and head extended.

    Plate 30A from the book Historia testudinum iconibus illustrata by Johann David Schoepff (Erlangen, 1792).

    The illustration is not inscribed (other than a partial plate number) but has been trimmed for binding and therefore this information has been lost from this plate.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Asia
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