Paul D Stewart / Fossil Trilobite (Triarthus eatoni) showing rare pyrites preservation of the limbs and antennae. From the late Ordovician 'Beecher's Bed' of Oneida County, New York, USA. The site is named after Charl...

Paul D Stewart / Cartoon from Punch, September 13th 1890 showing Professor Othniel Marsh standing atop a triceratops skull, with some of his famous discoveries before him. Top left Pteranodon (Marsh 1870) the first pt...

Paul D Stewart / 1909 illustration of Charles Darwin in tree with young chimpanzee (left) and orangutan (right) by the German artist Thomas Theodor Heine in the periodical 'Simplicissimus' 15th February 1909. This for...

Paul D Stewart / An African/Asian tropical landscape. Reproduced in Lubach and Logeman's 'Panorama der Bewoonde Aarde' (Panorama of the Inhabited World) 1851. This hand tinted folding lithograph references a series of...

Paul D Stewart / A northern temperate European landscape, reproduced in Lubach and Logeman's 'Panorama der Bewoonde Aarde' (Panorama of the Inhabited World) 1851. This hand tinted folding lithograph references a serie...

Paul D Stewart / 1909 'On Darwin's hundredth Birthday' Illustration of Charles Darwin in heavenly tree with young chimpanzee (left) and orangutan (right). Chromolithograph by the German artist Thomas Theodor Heine in...

Paul D Stewart / Reconstruction of the neanderthal 'Man of Chapelle-Aux Saints' by Mr. Kupka (scientifically advised by Marcellin Boule) for the Illustrated London News (ILN), Feb 27th, 1909. This image stuck with the...

Paul D Stewart / Reconstruction of the neanderthal 'Man of Chapelle-Aux Saints' by Mr. Kupka (scientifically advised by Marcellin Boule) for the Illustrated London News (ILN), Feb 27th, 1909. This image stuck with the...

Paul D Stewart / Detail of Great Argus Pheasant (Argusianus argus) zoo specimen, from SE Asia. Secondary wing feathers showing ocelli. Page 143 Vol II of Charles Darwin 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Greater Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) from Jardine's 'Naturalist's Library' series engravings by Lizars, drawn by Stewart. Published mid 1830's.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Trilobite (Phacops latifrons) enrolled and open, from 'Organization of the Trilobites' by Hermann Burmeister, appearing in the Ray Society translation of his work published in 1846. Th...

Paul D Stewart / Trilobite (Asaphus platycephalus) from 'Organization of the Trilobites' by Hermann Burmeister, appearing in the Ray Society translation of his work published in 1846. The Illustrations and engravings...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Joseph Dalton Hooker, 19th century botanist and explorer.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Wooly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) skull, copperplate engraving from the work of Sir Everard Home before 1823.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Trilobite (Homalonotus armatus) from 'Organization of the Trilobites' by Hermann Burmeister, appearing in the Ray Society translation of his work published in 1846. The illustrations a...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) head, skull and horn, copperplate engraving from the work of Sir Everard Home before 1823.

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen and Moa leg (20, July 1804 - 18 December 1892) photo-engraved by Walker and Boutall around 1894 from an 1846 Daguerrotype. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Hydrachos (Basilosaurus composite), a 1846 copper engraving from a Leipzig newspaper. It shows the German exhibition of 'Dr.' Albert Koch's 114 foot (34 metre) skeleton of a fossil 'se...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804 - 18 December 1892), 1894 engraving from an 1840s painting by Pickersgill, later hand colouring. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. He coined...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of extinct Thylacine / Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cyanocephalus) engraved by W. Lizars. From Jardine's series 'The Naturalist's Library; Mammalia' 1841 ('The Natural History of Marsupial...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrated London News 4th October 1845, an engraving of the Hunterian Museum with 'Darwin-like' figure central. Darwin discovered many striking extinct giant mammals while travelling overland in Sou...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'The Country of the Iguanodon' by the apocalyptic artist John Martin, commissioned by Gideon Mantell as the frontis for his popular book 'The Wonders of Geology' (1838). Martin was vis...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Orangutan (Pan pygmaeus), January 1838, Jenny the first Orangutan in London zoo. Full publication details in image. On 28 March 1838, Charles Darwin came to the London Zoo to visit Jen...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration 'Extinct Animals that once lived where Paris now is' an anonymous lithograph opposite page 21 from the American Children's book 'Wonders of the Earth Sea and Sky' 1837 written by Peter Pa...

Paul D Stewart / 1837 portrait of Gideon Mantell (3 February 1790 - 10 November 1852). Engraved from a painting by Samuel Stepney, later hand colouring. Published in G. Mantell's 'Thoughts on a Pebble' 1849. Gideon Ma...

Paul D Stewart / 1837 illustration of lesser Rorqual (now more commonly known as Minke whale Balaenoptera acuto-rostrata) beached and tied. From Jardine's 'Naturalist's Library', Whales, Volume VI, from artwork of Ste...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of four breeds of sheep (Ovis aries) from plates in Jardine's 'The Naturalist's Library' series, specifically 'The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals, Goats, Sheep, Wild and Domest...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from 'The Anniversary of the Literary Fun 1836' by Thomas Hood, published by Baily and Co, Cornhill. The reputation of academics for absent mindedness, eccentricity, and absorbtion in the...

Paul D Stewart / Hand coloured copperplate engraving from William Buckland's contribution to the Bridgewater Treatises ' Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology'. Pickering (1836). In this...

Paul D Stewart / Detail from a folding hand coloured copperplate engraving from William Buckland's contribution to the Bridgewater Treatises ' Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology'. Pic...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Viscacha (Lagidium sp.). Plate 42 from Volume 1 Trans Zool Soc London, 1835, 'Additional remarks on the Genus Lagotis, with some account of a second species referrible to it' with cont...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Gir Indian Lion (Panthera leo). Plate 24 from Volume 1 Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 1835, 'Some Account of the maneless Lion of Guzerat' with contemporary hand colouring as issued. The pl...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of John Gould (14 September 1804 - 3 February 1881). Engraving by T.H. Maguire 1849 as part of the friends of the Ipswich Museum series. Gould was a wildlife illustrator and ornithologist bor...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Albemarle Island' (now Isabela) engraving by Huyot and Bepard facing page 520 in 'All Around the World' published in 1872 by William Collins & Son. Shows the large caldera of a volcan...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Albemarle Island' (now Isabela) hand coloured engraving by Huyot and Bepard facing page 520 in 'All Around the World' published in 1872 by William Collins & Son. Shows the large calde...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) 'Tommy'. Caption reads, 'Chimpanzee or African Orang-Utan, Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park'. Mezzotint engraving with hand tinting, by George Scharf, p...

Paul D Stewart / A Galapagos Mockingbird, from the collection of the Charles Darwin Research Station on Galapagos. While actually on the Beagle voyage, it was the mockinbirds, and not the celebrated finches gave Darwi...

Paul D Stewart / Two Galapagos Mockingbirds (right, upper from Espanola lower from San Cristobal), three Galapagos finch species (upper left) and Yellow Warbler (gold, lower left), from the collection of the Charles D...

Paul D Stewart / A group of Darwin's finches, Geospizinae, from the collection of the Charles Darwin Research Station on Galapagos, showing a range of beak sizes and shapes. Darwin originally misidentified the finches...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from page 379, 'Journal of Researches' 2nd Edition 1845 Charles Darwin. The contrasting beaks of four Galapagos finches, three Geospizinae genus and one Certhidea (Warbler finch). Darwin...

Paul D Stewart / 1698 illustration of William Dampier, naturalist, explorer and buccaneer (August 1651 - March 1715). A posthumous 1787 Copperplate engraving by Charles Sherwin after the 1698 painting by T. Murray. On...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Edward Lear's first fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox). Plate 14 from Volume 1 Trans Zool Soc London, 1835, 'Notice of a Mammiferous Animal from Madagascar, constituting a New Form among the V...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Reverend Thomas Malthus, author of 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'. Mezzotint with later hand colouring painted and engraved by John Linnell, published 1834 by Dominic Colnaghi....

Paul D Stewart / 1834 steel engraving with contemporary hand colouring, the earliest coloured reconstruction of extinct fossil animals. It is from Guerin's Dictionnaire pittoresque Vol 1. plate 24. Numbered it include...

Paul D Stewart / Toxodon platensis fossil teeth together with the illustrations featured in George Sharf's life-sized lithograph (pl. IV) from 'The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle' under the supervision of Charles...

Paul D Stewart / Toxodon platensis fossil teeth together with illustrations in George Sharf's lithograph (pl. IV) from 'The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle' under the supervision of Charles Darwin, Part 1, 'Fossil...

Paul D Stewart / Toxodon platensis fossil teeth together with teeth featured in George Sharf's life-sized lithograph (plate IV) from 'The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle' under the supervision of Charles Darwin, P...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Strata of Tilgate Forest in Surrey' showing Gideon Mantell (seated) while two workmen excavate a partly exposed fossil spine of Iguanodon. The strata are labelled as: 1 Loam, 2 Sand a...

Paul D Stewart / 'Organic Remains restored' front page illustration of the Penny Magazine, October 26th 1833, with wood engraving illustration and later hand colouring. This is the first illustrated popular article on...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). 1833, Plate 1. Troglodytes niger, 'Black Orang'. The species was not well known yet with the first arriving in London zoo in 1835. Steel plate engraving w...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Plate 2 (and 3) Propithecus satyrus. 'The Red or Asiatic Orangutang' (sic). The orangutan was the first great ape to be well known in Europe and Britain. On...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Horn of the Iguanodon' (3) and 'The Claw or unguical bone of an Iguanodon' (1) with, for comparison 'The Nail and the bone which it covered of a recent Iguana' (2, 3). Drawn and litho...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of the extinct Falkland Island Wolf or Fox (Dusicyon australis). Hand coloured lithograph, Plate IV, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, edited and superintended by Charles Darwin...

Paul D Stewart / Falklands Wolf (Dusicyon australis). 1778 'The Wolf Fox of Faulklands Islands', a copperplate engraving from Commodore Byron's 'An account of a Voyage Round the World'. The Falkland Islands Wolf, Dusi...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of 'The Reverend William Buckland D.D. F.R.S. Canon of Christ Church and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Oxford 1833' Painted by Thomas Phillips and Mezzotint engrave...

Paul D Stewart / First engraving of Gideon Mantell's Hylaeosaurus discovery in the Tilgate forest quarry of the Weald. It represents only the third dinosaur to be discovered and named. Drawn and lithographed by F. Pol...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Beagle laid ashore, River Santa Cruz'. Copperplate engraving, art by Conrad Martens, engraved by T. Landseer. Published by H. Colburn 1838. Plate from 'The Narrative of the Surveying...

Paul D Stewart / Two books on collecting natural history specimens (particularly insects) published at the end of the 18th century. They would have influenced the famous specimen collectors of the early 18th century s...

Paul D Stewart / Map of the World with Voyage of the Beagle coloured in red. Appendix from 'The Voyage of HMS Beagle' by Charles Darwin (Cover Title) New Edition 1890 John Murray Publishers. Coloured print, retaining...

Paul D Stewart / Plan illustration of 'H.M.S. Beagle Middle Section Fore and Aft 1832' from 'The Voyage of HMS Beagle' (cover title) by Charles Darwin. Illustrated edition of 1890.

Paul D Stewart / Map of South America with Voyage of the Beagle coloured in red. Appendix from 'The Voyage of HMS Beagle' (Cover Title) by Charles Darwin, New Edition 1890 John Murray publishers. Coloured print, retai...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) from 'Naturhistoriche Abbinldungen der Saeugethiere' by Heinrich Rudolph Schinz. later edition circa 1841. Fine contemporary coloured lithograph...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of an insect setting board typical of the 19th Century in Britain. The green beetle is a Green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris), the yellow butterfly is a clouded Yellow (Colias croesu...

Paul D Stewart / Colour plate by W. Spry in 'Instructions for Collecting, Rearing, and Preserving British and Foreign Insects' by Abel Ingpen. Published by William Smith, London. Second edition 1839.

Paul D Stewart / Colour plate by W. Spry in 'Instructions for Collecting, Rearing, and Preserving British and Foreign Insects' by Abel Ingpen. Published by William Smith, London. Second edition 1839. This diagram show...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of The British Museum in Montagu House, Great Russel (sic) Street. Engraved by William Henshall from a study by T.H. Shepherd. From Shepherd's series 'London and its Environs in the Ninet...

Paul D Stewart / Frontis colour plate by Spry, and title 'Instructions for Collecting, Rearing, and Preserving British and Foreign Insects' by Abel Ingpen. Published by William Smith, London. Second edition 1839. The...

Paul D Stewart / Fine steel engraving with later hand colouring by l. Lewitt and Radclyffe of the 'British Museum - Zoological Gallery' in 'London Interiors' published by Joseph Mead of London (1841). The engraving sh...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Greater Crucifix Beetle (Panagaeus cruxmajor) on a grass stem. From Donovan's 'Natural History of British Insects' (plate by Donovan, volume circa 1806). This rare European ground beet...

Paul D Stewart / Early Lithographic print by Honegger drawn by Fuchs, from Dr. Shinz, 'Naturgeschichte und Abbilldungen des Menschen der verschiedenen' 1827/1840, with hand colouring. A trio of Papua New Guinea men wi...

Paul D Stewart / Silhouette first produced by Auguste Edouart of 'William Buckland and his Wife and Son Frank, Examining Buckland's Natural History Collection. The original is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Thi...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of tribal chief with Macaw (Ara sp.) feather ornaments. Early Lithographic print by Brodtmann, from Dr. Shinz, 'Naturgeschichte und Abbilldungen der Saugethiere' 1827/1840, with hand colo...

Paul D Stewart / Early Lithographic print by Carl Brodtmann from Dr. Shinz, 'Naturgeschichte und Abbilldungen des Menschen der verschiedenen' 1827, with hand colouring. A pair of Marquesas men with traditional tribal...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of people capturing a caiman. 'It was the first and last time I was ever on a Cayman's back' coloured engraving by Robert Cruikshank after drawing of Captain Edward Jones. Published in 18...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of people capturing a caiman. 'It was the first and last time I was ever on a Cayman's back' coloured engraving by Robert Cruikshank after drawing of Captain Edward Jones. Published in 18...

Paul D Stewart / Waterton's nondescript. 1825 'A Nondescript' drawn by T.H. Foljambe engraved on copper (with later tinting) by I.W. Lowry, being the frontispiece to Charles Waterton's 'Wanderings in South America' J....

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus). 1824 contemporary coloured lithograph by Carl Brotdmann of 'Der Orang-Uttang' appearing as table 1 in 'Naturhistorische Abbinldungen der Saeugethiere' by H...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of gibbon, orangutan and chimpanzee. 1824 contemporary coloured lithograph by Carl Brotdmann of 'Der Orang-Uttang', 'Der Hooloch' and 'Der Shimpanzee' appearing as table 1 in 'Naturhistor...

Paul D Stewart / 1824 Double quarto Plate XL of Megalosaurus' jaw and teeth drawn by Mary Moreland (modern tinting), from William Buckland's 'Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield'. Transact...

Paul D Stewart / 1824 illustration 'On the Discovery of an almost perfect Skeleton of the Plesiosaurus' Transactions of the Geological Society, Second Series, Volume 1, page 381-390. This large folio plate is the firs...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Charles Waterton (1782-1865), steel plate engraved frontis with later tinting from 'Essays on Natural History by Charles Waterton, edited with a life of the author by Norman Moore, B.A.' P...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of of Megalosaurus' femur, clavicle, fibula and metatarsals drawn by Mary Moreland, 1824, from William Buckland's 'Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield'^^^. T...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of Hyena (Crocuta sp.) jaw bones, 1823 copper engraving of a modern hyena (top) and British prehistoric hyena jawbones (below) from Kirkdale cave (below) with an actual cave hyena (Crocu...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Mammoth and Pteranodon 1820. An unrecorded, possibly unique print by 'E.S - F.G.S' (Fellow of Geological Society) in mezzotint style with contemporary hand colouring and ink inscriptio...

Paul D Stewart / Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1 August 1744 - 18 December 1829) portrait when old and blind. A later hand coloured frontis engraving by Lizars from his Cabinet Cyclopaedia series. Lamarck was a french pre-Da...

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...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Ichthyosaur skeleton, copper fold-out engraving at life size, (2.5cm ammonite top right for scale). It comes from a paper by Sir Everard Home in 1819. He was the first geologist to pub...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Rafflesia arnoldi, hand tinted copperplate engraving from 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder' BD XI, No 14, plate CLXXIII. c1820 around the time of the flower's first description. The largest sing...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Friedrich Alexander von Humboldt (14th September 1769 - 6th May 1859), Lizars' Steel engraving c 1830 with hand colouring after the 1806 painting by Friedrich Weitsch. A German explorer an...

Paul D Stewart / The first scientific illustration of an Ichthyosaur skull, Temnodontosaurus platydon, discovered by Mary Anning, 1812. It comes from an 1814 paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Societ...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Gibbon (Hylobates lar), 1812 copperplate engraving of a 'lar or long armed ape' (gibbon) from Pantalogia New Cyclopedia, published by Sherwood and Co, Paternoster St. London. Few large...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...