Turtle Collection

Fortnum & Masons Christmas Box for soldiers, WW1
Advertisement for quintessential London department store, Fortnum & Mason, in particular their Thirty Shilling Xmas Box of selected provisions which could be sent to the front for lucky soldiers

Duria antiquior (Ancient Dorset), an imaginative reconstruction of the life of
ONH99609 Duria antiquior (Ancient Dorset), an imaginative reconstruction of the life of the Jurassic seas, engraved by George Scharf (1820-95) printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850)

IROQUOIS CREATION MYTH. Sky Woman. A depiction of the Iroquois creation myth. Oil on canvas, 1936, by Ernest Smith

Turtle, Aboriginal Rock Art, Kakadu National Park
Painting of turtle at the aboriginal rock art site at Obirr Rock in Kakadu National Park where the paintings date from 20000 years old to modern, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Northern Territory

Picture No. 12479494
Turtle eating a plastic cup drifting in the middle Date:

Picture No. 12479493
Common bottlenose dolphin playing with a six Date:

RF - Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swimming over a coral reef. Whilst a Predatory bandcheek wrasse (Oxycheilinus digrammus)

Baby Sea Turtle Swimming out to Sea
A newly hatched baby sea turtle swimming out to sea at Heron Island in Australias Great Barrier Reef

Little Turtle / Miami
Chief of the Miami tribe who led a number of raids on settlers in the Northwest Territory. He was forced to sign the Treaty of Greenville in 1795

Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra porteri) feeding on grass, Santa Cruz Highlands, Galapagos

Alligator Snapper Turtle Showing lure formed by tongue, South America
PM-4035 Alligator Snapping Turtle - Showing lure formed by tongue South America. Macroclemys temmincki Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Hindu / The Cosmic Turtle
In the ancient Indian cosmogony, the Earth is sustained on the backs of elephants who are themselves standing on the back of a cosmic turtle

Leatherback Turtle Costa Rica
WAT-1928 Leatherback / Leathery Turtle - on beach Costa Rica Dermochelys coriacea M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Various Reptiles / 1913
An amazing illustration covering the whole range of reptilian species from snakes to newts

Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) resting on the seabed. This turtle is found in warm tropical waters. It is herbivorous and feeds on algae and sea grasses

The Bacchino, Boboli Garden, Florence (Firenze), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Green Sea Turtle Pacific Ocean, Hawaii
TOM-205 Green Sea Turtle - at water's surface Pacific Ocean, Hawaii Chelonia mydas Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Rust treatment. Brush being used to apply a rust removing mix of chemicals to a rusty spanner. Many commercial mixes of chemicals are available to remove rust (iron oxide)

Green turtles mating. The green turtle (Chelonia mydas) is critically under threat of extinction and is a protected species. Photographed off Sipadan, Sabah, Malaysia

Green Sea Turtle TOM 254 Pacicfic Ocean, Hawaii. Chelonia mydas © Tom & Pat Leeson / ARDEA LONDON
TOM-254 Green Sea TURTLE - side profile, at surface Pacific Ocean, Hawaii, USA Chelonia mydas Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Loggerhead Turtle - Hatchling going to sea, Mon Repos Beach, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, January JPF08394
JPF-14213 Loggerhead Turtle - Hatchling going to sea Mon Repos Beach, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, January Caretta caretta Jean-Paul Ferrero Please note that prints are for personal display

Green Turtle - pair of hatchlings Toruguero, Costa Rica
WAT-7180 Green TURTLE - pair of hatchlings, close up Tortuguero, Costa Rica Chelonia midas M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Loggerhead Turtle - Juvenile with pilot fish
DSE-88-c Loggerhead Turtle - Juvenile with pilot fish Caretta caretta Douglas David Seifert Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

North America, Florida, Sanibel Island

Green sea turtle ( Chelonia mydas ), Sipadan, Sabah, Malaysia, Borneo, South-east Asia (rr)
Andrew Davies / SpecialistStock

Loggerhead Turtle - female Great Barrier Reef
VT-3222 LOGGERHEAD TURTLE - FEMALE Great Barrier Reef, Australia Caretta caretta Valerie & Ron Taylor Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Leathery Turtle - newly hatched young
MI-02 Leatherback / Leathery Turtle - newly hatched young going to sea Dermochelys coriacea Distribution includes Trinidad & Tobago Masahiro Iijima Please note that prints are for personal display

Geometric tortoise (Psammobates geometricus), west coast, South Africa, Africa

CARTOON: EMBARGO, 1811. Ograbme, or the American Snapping-Turtle: American cartoon, 1811, by Alexander Anderson on the Embargo of trade with England that year

Leatherback sea turtle (sphargis coriacea)

Portrait of a Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) in morning light. Sipadan Island, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia. Celebes Sea

Waianapanapa Sunrise
The Road to Hana is an amazing and probably Mauis most popular drive. One of the must stops on the way is the black sand beach. The water is cold, treacherous and shark infested

Green Turtle, (Chelonia mydas), hatchlings head to sea, Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean

The Earth
According to Hindu belief, the Earth is supported on elephants, standing on a tortoise, which floats in the Universal Ocean

Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) feeding on on Turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum) seagrass bed. The Bahamas

Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) with rays of sunlight, black and white image, Akumal, Caribbean Sea, Mexico, July. Second place in the Visions of our Nature 2018

Two sea turtles
Close up of two sea turtles in Caribbean, Barbados, West Indies

Shell turtle
Marine turtles photographed on the beautiful Ningaloo Reef of western Australia

Picture No. 11067688
Turtle Dove. UK. Date:

East Midtown Skyline
Aerial view from the East River looking west of the East Midtown Manhattan skyline, New York, New York, 1950s or 1960s. Prominant structures include the United Nations Headquarters (right)

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937)
Lord Rothschild, founder of the Natural History Museum at Tring, riding on the back of a giant tortoise

Pitted Shelled / Pig Nosed Turtle New Guinea & N. Australia
PM-4936 Pitted-Shelled / Pig-Nosed Turtle New Guinea & N. Australia Carettochelys insculpta Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Loggerhead Turtle Front to side view North Atlantic Ocean
DSE-89 Loggerhead TURTLE - front to side view North Atlantic Ocean Caretta caretta Douglas David Seifert Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Baby turtle on beach, Santa Maria, Sal (Salt), Cape Verde Islands, Africa

Extinct Nothosaurus, mid-Triassic period
Nothosaurus, extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile from the shell-bearing limestone seas, mid-Triassic period. Illustration from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt, Prehistoric Life

Mannen Bridge, Fukagawa, 1858. 1858. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Mannen Bridge, Fukagawa, 1858

Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) swimming with angelfish, Punta Vicente Roca, Isabela Island, Galapagos

Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) swimming near mangroves, Elizabeth Bay, Isabela Island, Galapagos

Cub Seals on Ascension Island, South Atlantic, with a large green turtle on a sandy beach, working towards their conservation badges. Date: circa 1980s

Reptiles lithograph 1888
Illustrated Natural History of the Three Kingdoms Illustrierte Naturgeschichte der drei Reiche Franz StrAÔé¼ssles - Wilhelm Nitzschke, Stuttgart 1888

Spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo Graeca)
Antique illustration of Spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo Graeca)

The Aquarium, pub. 1873 (colour litho)
2646269 The Aquarium, pub. 1873 (colour litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; American, out of copyright

School of green chromis swimming over a couple of green turtles resting on a hard coral reef, Cebu, Philippines

USA, Hawaii, Oahu, North Shore, Laniakea Beach (Turtle Beach), Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)

Galapagos Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizi) underwater GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador, South America Endemic Subspecies

APOLLODORUS OF DAMASCUS (60-129). Column of Trajan. 110; Theodosius Obelisk. 390. ITALY. Rome. Forum of Trajan. First Dorian War. Third Campaign

Hawksbill Turtle - Lana'i - Maui
LEE-53 Hawksbill Turtle Lana'i - Maui Eretmochelys imbricata Lea Lee contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Green sea turtle - baby birth - Espanola Island - Galapagos Islands
WAT-17716 Green sea turtle - baby birth Espanola Island - Galapagos Islands Chelonia mydas M. Watson contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Turtle swimming. Unidentified turtle (order Testudines) swimming in silhouette. Turtles use their powerful paddle-like front limbs to propel themselves through the water

Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swimming over a coral reef. This sea turtle is critically under threat of extinction and is a protected species

Giant tortoise (Geochelone nigra) at the Galapaguera de Cerro Colorado, tortoise breeding center, Isla San Cristobal (San Cristobal Island), Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador

Michael S. Nolan / SpecialistStock
Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) at cleaning station at Olowalu Reef on the west side of the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA

Olive Ridley Turtle - hatchling making their way to the water Orissa Coast, India
JVG-2803 Olive Ridley / Golfina TURTLE - hatchlings entering sea / Indian ocean Orissa Coast, India Lepidochelys olivacea Joanna Van Gruisen Please note that prints are for personal display purposes

Painting of a turtle at the Aboriginal rock art site at Ubirr Rock, Kakadu National Park, where paintings date from 20000 years old to present day, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Northern Territory

Green Turtles VT 2119 Mating Chelona midas © Ron & Valerie Taylor / ARDEA LONDON
VT-2119 GREEN TURTLES MATING Chelona midas Valerie & Ron Taylor Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Snapping Turtle KFO 1281 Albino, North & South America Chelydra serpentina © Kenneth W. Fink / ARDEA LONDON
KFO-1281 Snapping Turtle Albino, North & South America Chelydra serpentina Kenneth W Fink Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Loggerhead Turtle - Loggerhead turtle surrounded by her own bubbles diving after taking a breath of air
VT-8608 Loggerhead Turtle - Loggerhead turtle surrounded by her own bubbles diving after taking a breath of air. Loggerhead turtles are endangered. Heron Island Great Barrier Reef

Hawksbill Turtle - front-view one flipper up Bahamas, Caribbean
DSE-97 Hawksbill TURTLE - front-view, one flipper up Bahamas, Caribbean Eretmochelys imbricata Douglas David Seifert Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bushnells Submarine
BUSHNELLs TURTLE the first submersible craft to be used in action, attacking a British ship at New York on 7 September 1776; the one-man crew provided the power manually !

DDE-90039100
Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina, Michigan Date: 26/05/2010

The tortoise trainer
FIA5384761 The tortoise trainer by Bey, Osman Hamdi (1842-1910); Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; (add.info.: " Le dresseur de tortues" (The tortoise trainer)

The Lobster Quadrille Postcard by Charles Folkard. ca. 1921, The Lobster Quadrille Postcard by Charles Folkard

Turtle Soup Advertisement
T.K Belliss Real Turtle Soup. Guarenteed to be the product of the Finest Imported Live Turtle. Delicious and economical, nourishing, sustaining and easily digested

Turtle, coloured X-ray. The head of the turtle is at right

Tawny Shark - attacking dead turtle Raine Island, Gt. Barrier Reef, Australia
VT-5999 TAWNY SHARK ATTACKING TURTLE Raine Island, Gt. Barrier Reef, Australia Valerie & Ron Taylor Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Green turtle swimming - Aquariumgalicia Reboredo Galicia Spain
MAB-276 Green turtle swimming Chelonia mydas Mark Boulton Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

USA, Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia Mydas); Hawaii

Turtle, Egyptian Red Sea, scenic view of reef, blue background 30-6-07
Len Deeley / SplashdownDirect

Tortoise and turtle species
Greek tortoise, Testudo graeca, land tortoise, Cinyxis, European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis, matamata, Chelus fimbriata, Florida softshell turtle, Apalone ferox, Nile softshell turtle

Recovering the Stolen Jewel from the Palace of the Dragon King, 1853

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) swimming near surface in halo of light. The Bahamas

The concept of the universe: the hindu cosmic turtle
The concept of the universe: the cosmic turtle featuring a snake (cobra) and elephants

Floreana giant tortoise hybrid descendant (Chelonoidis elephantopus), Fausto Llerena Giant Trotoise Breeding Centre, Galapagos National park Directorate, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

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In various cultures and throughout history, the turtle has held significant meaning. From ancient creation myths to modern-day conservation efforts, this remarkable creature continues to captivate our imagination. One such myth is the Iroquois Creation Myth, which tells the story of Sky Woman descending from the heavens onto a giant turtle's back. This depiction symbolizes the connection between earth and sky, emphasizing harmony and balance. Traveling further back in time, we encounter Duria antiquior (Ancient Dorset), an imaginative reconstruction that offers a glimpse into prehistoric life. Amongst these scenes of ancient landscapes, turtles gracefully navigate their surroundings, reminding us of their enduring presence throughout history. Moving across continents to Kakadu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory, we discover an aboriginal rock art site at Obirr Rock. Here lies a testament to human creativity spanning over 20, 000 years. Amongst these intricate paintings are depictions of turtles – timeless symbols representing wisdom and longevity. Diving beneath ocean waves reveals another facet existence – the hawksbill sea turtle swimming over vibrant coral reefs. These majestic creatures play a crucial role in maintaining marine ecosystems while showcasing nature's unparalleled beauty. Shifting gears from natural wonders to historical events brings us to Fortnum & Masons Christmas Box for soldiers during World War I. Even amidst turmoil and conflict, these boxes brought joy and comfort to those serving on distant shores - perhaps even containing images or stories featuring turtles as symbols of resilience and hope. Venturing towards Santa Cruz Highlands in Galapagos unveils yet another captivating sight: Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises feeding on grasses with tranquil gracefulness. These gentle giants remind us of our responsibility towards preserving endangered species like them for future generations. Witnessing baby sea turtles bravely swim out into vast oceans evokes feelings of awe and wonderment at nature's miracles unfolding before our eyes. Their journey represents determination against all odds, inspiring us to embrace challenges and embark on our own adventures.