Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra Finish:Single 'Before The Trial'

'Before The Trial'

Showing a view along Poultry and Princes Street

'City traind bands'

Including a key below the image

Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra Finish:Single 'Before The Trial'Landscape view showing the naturalist Abraham Trembley collecting specimens from a moat or canal, using a net. His two pupils, the sons of Count Willem Bentinck (1704 1774) sit beside him with a dog behind. The water feature is within a waled and tree lined garden 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. 149. The plate is