RefNo | PT/75/1/5 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paintings, teeth of the iguanodon and hylaeosaurus by Lens Aldons |
Date | [1841] |
Description | Plate 6, figures 1-11 showing fossilised teeth of the iguanodon and teeth of an unknown reptile, possibly a hylaeosaurus. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Partially cut off signature bottom left reads '[...] Nature by Lens Aldons'. A graphite inscription bottom right reads 'J. [James] Basire sc.' Graphite inscription across the top reads 'This should be copper plate'. Covered with a thin layer of tracing paper.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the iguanodon, and on the remains of the hylæosaurus and other saurians, discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell.
Received by the Royal Society on 8 February 1841. Read 18 February 1841. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Painting |
PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on paper |
Dimensions | 274x211mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1841.0013 |
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0148 |
RelatedRecord | PT/25/4 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7470 | Mantell; Gideon Algernon (1790 - 1852) | 1790 - 1852 |