I don’t know about where you live but whenever I have come across a land snail shell, it certainly wasn’t as pretty as this one. Identified as the shell of an achatina purpurea, this green, pink and red shell drawing is one of the prettiest snail shells I have ever seen.
Not sure what else I can share with you other than this colorful land snail shell drawing is from an 1822 natural history dictionary written by the French author Jean Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin (1778-1846). Marcellin, as far as I can tell, did not provide credit for the illustrator, engraver or colorist of this drawing.
This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.
