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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour ; 23.2 x 32.5 cm
Illustration of: Blue land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi); in French, Crabe de terre commun. Place of creation: au Cap [Cap-Haïtien]. Specimen origin: Caribbean.
Trimmed.
Inscription (transcribed from recto): Crabe de Marais Gr. Nat.
Inscription (from recto; translation): Marsh Crab Life Size.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): Grand. Nat: Crabe male de marais auprès de son trou. au Cap le 14 aoust 1782 Rabié No. 1. daprès nature. / no. 62. La crabe mâle de marais, auprès de son trou, de grandeur naturelle.
Inscription (from verso; translation): Life Size: Male marsh crab by its hole. at Le Cap 14 August 1782 Rabié No. 1. from life. / no. 62. Male marsh crab, by its hole, life size.