Paul D Stewart / Portrait of George Cuvier, naturalist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist (23 August 1769 - 13 May 1832). Portrait engraving by James Thompson, issued by Mackenzie Glasgow around 1833 with late...
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Paul D Stewart / Three toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus). Skeleton of a three toed sloth, or 'Ai', copperplate engraving from Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' 1812. Cuvier saw that the key to understanding fossils was to...
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Paul D Stewart / Mastodon teeth engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Mammut americanum is a late pliocene/pleistocene relative of the elephants whose fossils are found only in North America. First discove...
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Paul D Stewart / 'Grand Mastodon' engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Mammut americanum is a late pliocene/pleistocene relative of the elephants whose fossils are found only in North America. First disco...
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Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of Sacred Ibis. Composite of three plates (by Balzac) from Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' 1812. Left - a mummy skeleton from Thebes, middle - the modern sacred ibis, right - an Egyptian te...
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Paul D Stewart / Mummified Ibis Head from Egypt (Ptolemaic period 305-30 B.C.) together with English translations of Cuvier's 'Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe' and one of his Ibis plates reproduced after 'Ossa...
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Paul D Stewart / Illustration of skeleton of a hippopotamus, (Hippopotamus amphibius) skelton, copperplate engraving from Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles'. Cuvier saw that the key to understanding fossils was to relate th...
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Paul D Stewart / Elephant skeleton engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Cuvier, the master of comparative anatomy, referenced modern species with extinct fossils to reveal their affinities and differences...
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Paul D Stewart / Illustration of bear skulls of living and extinct species, engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Cuvier, the master of comparative anatomy, referenced modern species with extinct fossils t...
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Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, polymath, American Founding Father and President (b. 13 April 1743 - d. 4 July 1826). Engraving by W.Holl in 'The Gallery of Portraits' 1837 with later colouring, after p...
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Paul D Stewart / 1798 illustration of people excavating Mosasaur (Mosasaur hoffmanii) skull; copperplate engraving with its original handcolouring from Volume III of J.L Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder'. The Maastric...