'The small Mud-Tortoise' dressed up Miss Provis stands on a

Miss Provis stands on a rainbow daubing paint on the face of Titian

Biscuits Lefevre-Utile

November 22

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Punch makes the point in one of the journal's most powerful cartoons

'The small Mud-Tortoise' dressed up Miss Provis stands on aZoological studies of a turtle or terrapin from Pennsylvania, North America. The upper and lower views of the animal appear above a general study of the creature apparently walking on land. Plate 287 from chapter 77 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'The Small mud Tortoise, smelling strong of Musk, haveing a