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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour ; 24.7 x 34.5 cm
Illustration of: Mountain crab (Gecarcinus ruricola); in French, Gécarcin tourlourou. Place of creation: au Cap [Cap-Haïtien].
Inscription (transcribed from recto): Crabe des Mornes.
Inscription (from recto; translation): Mountain Crab.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): No. 11. Crabe femelle des mornes, marquetée. Grand. nat. au Cap le 29 aoust 1782 Rabié daprès nature / no. 71. La crabe des mornes, femelle, marquetée, de grandeur naturelle.
Inscription (from verso; translation): No. 11. Female mountain crab, marked. Life size at Le Cap 29 August 1782 Rabié life size / no. 71. Mountain crab, female, marked, life size.