Plate 2113, page 77, etching cut from a larger page from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, vol. 2.

The design was originally produced as a woodcut and first published in Charles Knight's (1791-1873) The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, no. 35, “Catching Turtles,” 20 October 1832. The accompanying 1832 magazine article described the scene as depicting the manner in which “marine tortoises are caught on the coast of Cuba,” and identified the two species in the fore-front as the Green Tortoise (a) and the Loggerhead Tortoise (b). In the later revised text by William Charles Linnaeus Martin (1798-1864) for Knight's larger illustrated guide to the animal kingdom, the turtles are re-identified as the Green Turtle (a) and the Hawksbill Turtle (b).