Paul D Stewart / Restoration of the Iguanodon by Alice B. Woodward from Lydekker's The Royal Natural History' Frederick Warne and co, 1896. This is one of the first reconstructions to correctly show the Iguanodon's th...

Paul D Stewart / Skull of Moa or Dinornis discovered by Mr. Walter Mantell on the North Island of New Zealand. Plate with later tinting, from Gideom Mantell's petrifactions and their teachings (1851) published by Henr...

Paul D Stewart / 1854 Iguanodon model by Waterhouse Hawkins. Hawkins attempted to scientifically reconstruct dinosaurs for the Crystal Palace Geological Gardens at Sydenham 1852-1855. He was helped by Richard Owen, th...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of iguanodon and megalosaurus by Riou in the revised English 1867 translation of Louis Figuier's 'Earth before the Deluge' 1863. The figure shows impressions after the collaboration betwe...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from Flammarion's 'Le Monde avant la Creation de l'Homme'. This is the first dinosaur (Iguanodon) reconstruction to put them in a modern context to show their size. In this case getting a...

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 '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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) tooth. 'The back grinding tooth of the mammoth or Mastodon of Ohio, weight 4lb and 11oz, drawn and engraved by Springsguth from life'. Forming the...

Paul D Stewart / The frontis to Gideon Mantell's 1851 book, 'Petrifactions and their Teachings - a handbook to the gallery of organic remains at the British Museum'. The frontis engraving is of Notornis Mantelli - the...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20 July 1804 - 18 December 1892). 1850 portrait by Thomas Herbert Maguire lithographed by M&H Hanhart. Part of the Portraits of the Honarary members of the Ipswich Museum col...

Paul D Stewart / The Illustrated London News, December 31st, 1853, page 600. 'The Extinct Animals Model-Room, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham' by P.H. Delamotte. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins made the first full size re...

Paul D Stewart / 1854 Illustrated London News, January 7th 1854, page 22: dinner in the iguanodon model, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham'. Hosted 31st December 1853 by the Crystal Palace model maker Benjamin Waterhous...

Paul D Stewart / 1855 Cartoon from Punch's Almanac of that year, ascribed to John Leech, captioned 'A visit to the antediluvian reptiles at Sydenham - master Tom strongly objects to having his mind improved'. Clockwis...

Paul D Stewart / 1857 engraved chromo lithograph frontispiece by Pannemaker from the French translation Edition of Zimmerman's 'Le Monde avant la Creation de L'Homme'. It shows a long necked plesiosaur threatening wha...