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Image number: RS.19912
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Nothosaurus
Date
1872
Creator
Charles Maurand (1824 - 1904, French) , Printmaker
After
Édouard Riou (1833 - 1900, French) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
39265
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 130mm
width (page): 185mm
width (page): 185mm
Subject
Description
Shoreline landscape with reconstructed examples of extinct reptiles from various periods, including Labyrinthodontia, and Nothosaurus, the latter from the Triassic. The scene features other smaller creatures and trace fossil footprints.
Plate 13 from the book The world before the deluge, by Louis Figuier, newly edited and revised by H. W. Bristow (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1872).
Signed within the plate, ‘MAURAND’ lower left and ‘RIOU’ lower right. The image is numbered and captioned below: ‘XIII. – Ideal Landscape of the Muschelkalk Sub-period.’
The accompanying text (p.190) states: ‘Another Reptile of great dimensions – which would seem to have been intended to prepare the way for the apppearence of the enormous Saurian which present themselves in the Jurassic period – was the Nothosaurus, a species of marine Crocodile, of which a restoration has been attempted in PLATE XIII. opposite’
Louis Figuier (1819-1894) French science writer, author of popular books on natural history and invention.
Édouard Riou (1833–1900) French illustrator, notable for his illustrations of the novels of Jules Verne.
Henry William Bristow (1817-1889), British geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862.
Plate 13 from the book The world before the deluge, by Louis Figuier, newly edited and revised by H. W. Bristow (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1872).
Signed within the plate, ‘MAURAND’ lower left and ‘RIOU’ lower right. The image is numbered and captioned below: ‘XIII. – Ideal Landscape of the Muschelkalk Sub-period.’
The accompanying text (p.190) states: ‘Another Reptile of great dimensions – which would seem to have been intended to prepare the way for the apppearence of the enormous Saurian which present themselves in the Jurassic period – was the Nothosaurus, a species of marine Crocodile, of which a restoration has been attempted in PLATE XIII. opposite’
Louis Figuier (1819-1894) French science writer, author of popular books on natural history and invention.
Édouard Riou (1833–1900) French illustrator, notable for his illustrations of the novels of Jules Verne.
Henry William Bristow (1817-1889), British geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862.
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