Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra mb-height 2251 near Smithfield and Clerkenwell Close

near Smithfield and Clerkenwell Close

Including horse drawn carriages and figures selling their goods

The company was founded in 1862 but the yard never became profitable and closed after just four years

30th May 1922

now exhibiting in the Tower of London'

Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra mb-height 2251 near Smithfield and Clerkenwell CloseLandscape view showing the naturalist Abraham Trembley with his two pupils, the sons of Count Willem Bentinck (1704 1774) collecting specimens from a canal at Zorgvlied near the Hague in the Netherlands. Vignette from Memoires pour server a l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce by Abraham Trembley (Leiden, 1744), p. 1. The plate is inscribed: 'C. Pronck del. ad viv. 1744. J. V. Schley sculp.' The Swiss natural historian Abraham Trembley (1710