The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Flat Tortoise
Images supplied courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation. [Photograph].Click image for full-size. Collector (major)Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) Donator of object(s)Netherwood (-) In Print: Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thoresby (1659-1725) Preserved at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, 35 Description:Described in Musaeum Thoresbianum as: ‘A flat . . . [tortoise] . . . from Barbadoes; the convex
Work is composed of Black and Citrine, 13 entire
round, or rather Pentagonal Figures, besides
the Halves at the Edge. Don. D. Netherwood.’