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Image number: RS.19916
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Teleosaurs and hylaeosaur
Date
1872
Creator
Unknown, Artist
After
Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps (1830 - 1889, French) , Palaeontologist
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - 1894, British) , Sculptor
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - 1894, British) , Sculptor
Object type
Library reference
39265
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 130mm
width (page): 185mm
width (page): 185mm
Subject
Description
Coastal landscape of the middle Jurassic with a reconstruction of live and dead teleosaurs and a hylaeosaurus.
Plate 18 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).
Plate not signed. The image is numbered and captioned below: ‘XVIII. – Ideal Landscape of the Middle Oolitic Period.’
The accompanying text (pp.259-260) states: ‘The Teleosaurus cadomensis is represented on the opposite page (PLATE XVIII.) after the sketch of M. E. Deslongchamps, carrying from the sea in its mouth a Geoteuthis, a species of Calamary of the Oolitic epoch. This creature was coated with a cuirass both on the back and belly…a dead one is floating on its back in shallow water, leaving the ventral cuirass exposed. Behind the Teleosaurus cadomensis in the engraving, another Saurian, the Hylaeosaurus, is represented, which makes its appearance in the Cretaceous epoch. We have here adopted the restoration which has been so ably executed by Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham.’
Louis Figuier (1819-1894) French science writer, author of popular books on natural history and invention.
Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps (1830-1889) French palaeontologist, author of monographs on teleosaurs.
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894) British natural history artist and sculptor, author (with Richard Owen) of the earliest public display of dinosaur sculptures at the Crystal Palace, in 1852.
Henry William Bristow (1817-1889), British geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862.
Plate 18 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).
Plate not signed. The image is numbered and captioned below: ‘XVIII. – Ideal Landscape of the Middle Oolitic Period.’
The accompanying text (pp.259-260) states: ‘The Teleosaurus cadomensis is represented on the opposite page (PLATE XVIII.) after the sketch of M. E. Deslongchamps, carrying from the sea in its mouth a Geoteuthis, a species of Calamary of the Oolitic epoch. This creature was coated with a cuirass both on the back and belly…a dead one is floating on its back in shallow water, leaving the ventral cuirass exposed. Behind the Teleosaurus cadomensis in the engraving, another Saurian, the Hylaeosaurus, is represented, which makes its appearance in the Cretaceous epoch. We have here adopted the restoration which has been so ably executed by Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham.’
Louis Figuier (1819-1894) French science writer, author of popular books on natural history and invention.
Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps (1830-1889) French palaeontologist, author of monographs on teleosaurs.
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894) British natural history artist and sculptor, author (with Richard Owen) of the earliest public display of dinosaur sculptures at the Crystal Palace, in 1852.
Henry William Bristow (1817-1889), British geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862.
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