Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra P Tilemans dressed as an Egyptian pharaoh

dressed as an Egyptian pharaoh

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The plate is headed 'TROMBES' and inscribed 'Dessine par M

Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra P Tilemans dressed as an Egyptian pharaohLandscape view showing the naturalist Abraham Trembley with his two pupils, the sons of Count Willem Bentinck (1704 1774) collecting specimens from a canal at Zorgvlied near the Hague in the Netherlands. Vignette from Memoires pour server a l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce by Abraham Trembley (Leiden, 1744), p. 1. The plate is inscribed: 'C. Pronck del. ad viv. 1744. J. V. Schley sculp.' The Swiss natural historian Abraham Trembley (1710