Jane S. Bell

Jane Sarah Roberts Bell (1798-1873)[1] was a British illustrator.

Her illustrations of the African softshell turtle and pale-throated sloth's bone structures were published in A Monograph of the Testudinata and Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.

Bell was born to William Robert, Esq.

[2] The couple had one child, a daughter, Susan Gosse,[3] born 29 March 1836.

[3] In 1861/2 Thomas and Jane retired to The Wakes, a house at Selborne, former home of the amateur naturalist Gilbert White.

Illustration (Plate 18) for Thomas Bell's A Monograph of the Testudinata , illustrated by Jane S. Bell
Vol 1 Plate 17 of Transactions of the Zoological Society of London by Jane S. Bell