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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour ; 24 x 32.8 cm
Illustration of: Mudflat fiddler (Minuca rapax); in French, Crabe violoniste; in Haitian Creole, Touloulou/ Krab cémafot. Place of creation: Haiti.
Trimmed.
Inscription (transcribed from recto): Tourlourou.
Inscription (from recto; translation): Tourlourou.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): N. 5 Petite crabe male, de marais qui couvre d'Eau, Grand. nat. le 18 aoust 1782 ou tourlourou, d'après nature Rabié no. 5 / no. 66. tourlourou, petite crabe mâle, de marais, grandeur naturelle.
Inscription (from verso; translation): N. 5 Small male crab, in the tidal flats covered in water, Life size 18 August 1782 or "tourlourou", from life Rabié no. 5 / no. 66. tourlourou, small male crab, from tidal flats, life size.