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Image number: RS.19914
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Ichthyosaur and plesiosaur
Date
1872
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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
Marine landscape with extinct ocean-dwelling reptiles from the Jurassic period.
Plate 15 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, ‘RIOU’ lower left and an illegible signature lower right. The image is numbered and captioned below: ‘XV. – Ideal scene of the Lias with Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus.’
The accompanying text (pp.219-233) commences with a description of the discoveries of the (unnamed) Mary Anning (1799-1847) – ‘In 1811 a country girl, who made her precarious living by picking up fossils for which the neighbourhood was famous, was pursuing her avocation, hammer in hand, when she perceived some bones projecting a little out of a cliff…In this manner was the first of these monster brought to light’.
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 15 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, ‘RIOU’ lower left and an illegible signature lower right. The image is numbered and captioned below: ‘XV. – Ideal scene of the Lias with Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus.’
The accompanying text (pp.219-233) commences with a description of the discoveries of the (unnamed) Mary Anning (1799-1847) – ‘In 1811 a country girl, who made her precarious living by picking up fossils for which the neighbourhood was famous, was pursuing her avocation, hammer in hand, when she perceived some bones projecting a little out of a cliff…In this manner was the first of these monster brought to light’.
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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