'Istiurus pustulatus' [Philippine sailfin lizard] mb-artistname Samuel Cousins my Children

my Children

showing the works from Stonecutter Street looking north

also with horses and carraiges

In pencil lower left '1697' an dlower right '3/-'

On 28th January

'Istiurus pustulatus' [Philippine sailfin lizard] mb-artistname Samuel Cousins my ChildrenZoological study of the Philippine sailfin lizard (Hydrosaurus pustulatus), native to the Philippines. Plate 7 from the book Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten wahrend des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, by Friedrich Eschscholtz (Berlin, 1829). Inscribed '2 5 E. Bommer del. Prof. F. Guimpel sc. Istiurus pustulatus.' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1793 1831) Livonian physician, botanist