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Image number: RS.19918
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Iguanodon and megalosaurus
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
Forested landscape of the Cretaceous period with reconstructed flora and two dinosaurs in combat, the iguanodon and megalosaurus.
Plate 21 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: ‘XXI. – Ideal scene in the Lower Cretaceous Period, with Iguanodon and Megalosaurus.’
The accompanying text (p.297) states: ‘On the opposite page an ideal landscape of the period is represented (PLATE XXI.), in which the Iguanodon and Megalosaurus struggle for the mastery in the centre of the forest, which enables us also to convey some idea of the vegetation of the period. Here we note a vegetation at once exotic and temperate – a flora like that of the tropics, and also resembling our own. On the left we observe a group of trees, which resemble the dicotyledonous plants of our own forests. The elegant Credneria is there, whose botanical place is still doubtful, for its fruit has not been found, although it is believed to have belonged to plants with two seed-leaves, or dicotyledonous, and the arborescent Amentaceae. An entire group of trees, composed of Ferns and Zamites, are in the background; in the extreme distance are some Palms. We also recogniise in the picture the alder, the wych-elm, the maple, and the walnut-tree, or at least species analogous to these.’
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 21 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: ‘XXI. – Ideal scene in the Lower Cretaceous Period, with Iguanodon and Megalosaurus.’
The accompanying text (p.297) states: ‘On the opposite page an ideal landscape of the period is represented (PLATE XXI.), in which the Iguanodon and Megalosaurus struggle for the mastery in the centre of the forest, which enables us also to convey some idea of the vegetation of the period. Here we note a vegetation at once exotic and temperate – a flora like that of the tropics, and also resembling our own. On the left we observe a group of trees, which resemble the dicotyledonous plants of our own forests. The elegant Credneria is there, whose botanical place is still doubtful, for its fruit has not been found, although it is believed to have belonged to plants with two seed-leaves, or dicotyledonous, and the arborescent Amentaceae. An entire group of trees, composed of Ferns and Zamites, are in the background; in the extreme distance are some Palms. We also recogniise in the picture the alder, the wych-elm, the maple, and the walnut-tree, or at least species analogous to these.’
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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