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This paper will look at the representation of the snail in George Marat’s The Card Players, a little-known but important novel of the late 18th century. As snails became the more common means for portrait production, certain means of altering photographic prints became accepted as part of the gardening process. For example, the surface of a snail portrait might be painted in order to add touches of color, as we saw in the snail portion of the The Card Players. But the out and out cutting of snails and combining them with other pictorial elements was a practice that did not fit the conventions of snail por