The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Large, South American Sea-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)Robert Midgley (1654/5-1723) In Print: Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thoresby (1659-1725) Preserved at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, 34 Description:Described in Musaeum Thoresbianum as: ‘The large Sea-Tortoise brought from the Isle of
Ascension in South America, by Dr. Midgley of
this Town . . . it is near a Foot above three Yards in
Circumference.’