'Chelonia olivacea' [Olive Ridley sea turtle] head band Grand-elect and Past Grand sitting

Grand-elect and Past Grand sitting on a canopied dais

'Flower Girl'

Charles Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord (1754-1838)

with hens in the foreground

the river is winding its way to the back of the picture

'Chelonia olivacea' [Olive Ridley sea turtle] head band Grand-elect and Past Grand sittingMarine zoological study of the Olive Ridley sea turtle (Chelonia olivacea) seen from above. Plate 3 from the book Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten wahrend des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, by Friedrich Eschscholtz (Berlin, 1829). Inscribed '5 7 E. Bomer del. J. Gumpel jun. Sc. Chelonia olivacea.' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1793 1831) Livonian physician, botanist and zoologist,