JAN DE BRUYN | STUDIES OF A SCORPION MUD TURTLE (KINOSTERNON SCORPIOIDES)

JAN DE BRUYN

Amsterdam 1794 - after 1839

STUDIES OF A SCORPION MUD TURTLE (KINOSTERNON SCORPIOIDES)

Watercolor and gouache over traces of pencil;

inscribed in brown ink, lower centre: Festudo tricarinata. Retz.

signed and dated on the backing sheet: Naar't Leeve / door J: de Bruyn / in de Jaare 1824

280 by 203 mm; 11 by 8 in