Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus, dragging a bloody human baby in its jaws into the Nile river. A distraught woman runs after them. Grass huts and palm trees in the background. Le crocodile, Crocodilus vulgaris. Handcoloured steel engraving by Charles Beyer after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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