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Caretta Collection

Background imageCaretta Collection: Lanius ludovicianus, loggerhead shrike

Lanius ludovicianus, loggerhead shrike
Plate 57 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Background imageCaretta Collection: Scorpion mud turtle and endangered loggerhead sea turtle

Scorpion mud turtle and endangered loggerhead sea turtle
Scorpion mud turtle, Kinosternon scorpioides (Tricarinated tortoise, Testudo tricarinata) and loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, endangered

Background imageCaretta Collection: Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, by Gottwald

Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, by Gottwald
Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta (loggerhead turtle, Testudo caretta). Endangered. Illustration by Christoforus Gottwald, with 16 scales instead of the usual 15 on the shield

Background imageCaretta Collection: Green sea turtle, loggerhead and leatherback turtles

Green sea turtle, loggerhead and leatherback turtles
Green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas (endangered), loggerhead, Caretta caretta (endangered), and leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea (critically endangered)

Background imageCaretta Collection: Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta

Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta. Vulnerable. Une tortue de mer d Amerique, Caretta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration after nature by

Background imageCaretta Collection: Green sea turtle, loggerhead turtle, soft-shelled

Green sea turtle, loggerhead turtle, soft-shelled
Green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas 1 (endangered), loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta 2 (endangered), Nile soft-shelled turtle, Trionyx triunguis 3, yellow-footed tortoise

Background imageCaretta Collection: Native Americans hunting the loggerhead sea

Native Americans hunting the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta (endangered). Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857

Background imageCaretta Collection: Painted turtle and loggerhead sea turtle (endangered)

Painted turtle and loggerhead sea turtle (endangered)
Painted turtle, Chrysemys picta (below/above) and loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, endangered. (Cinereous tortoise, Emys cinerea, and Mediterranean tortoise, Testudo caretta)

Background imageCaretta Collection: Testudo marina, loggerhead turtle

Testudo marina, loggerhead turtle
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby


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