Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra Finish:Single the Casuarius emu

the Casuarius emu

with boxer dog Roscoe

Also with figures looking at the vista

The lock is being guarded by a good

his folded spectacles held in the right hand

Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra Finish:Single the Casuarius emuLandscape view showing the naturalist Abraham Trembley collecting specimens from a pond, using a net, with his two pupils, the sons of Count Willem Bentinck (1704 1774) behind him. The water feature is within a garden stocked with a peacock and other birds 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. 79. The plate is inscribed: