Fossil Reconstruction Collection

1854 Crystal Palace Dinosaurs by Baxter 1
1854. Sydenham Crystal Palace with Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins dinosaur sculptures in the foreground. 11cm x 16.3 cm. Miniature colour print by the George Baxter patent process of mutiple ink blocks

1869 Central Park Dinosaurs Hawkins full
1869 Harpers Weekly, August 14th. " Palaeozoic Museum. Showing the rehabilitated forms of ancient animal life in america now being constructed in Central Park"

1861 Fossil Man by Boitard
M. Boitards drawing of a decidedly simian fossil man was published after his death in the 1861 book " Paris Avant Les Hommes" (engraving by Moreau)

1833 Penny Magazine extinct animals color
1833 " Organic Remains restored" front page of the Penny Magazine October 26th with wood engraving illustration and later hand colouring. (Original print black and white also available)

1834 Guerin engraving Extinct animals
This 1834 steel engraving with contemporary hand colouring is the earliest coloured reconstruction of extinct fossil animals. It is from Guerins Dictionnaire pittoresque Vol 1. plate 24

1840s Geologist Henry De La Beche
Swantype (cleaned) 1840s Portrait mezzotint of Henry Thomas De La Beche (1796-1855), a geologist famous for his cartoon and humorous representations of early fossil finds and fellow geologists

1833 Penny Magazine extinct animals crop
1833 October 26th " Organic Remains restored" front page of the Penny Magazine with wood engraving illustration and later hand colouring. (Original print black and white also available)

1863 Lyells Antiquity of Man desktop
Printers page title and frontispiece engraving from Charles Lyells 1863 " The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man" together with a paleolithic flint handaxe from the Thames gravels

1849 The antidiluvian world crop Jurassic
A rare British informational broadsheet with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849

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