The country of the Iguanodon

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Title

The country of the Iguanodon

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Description

An engraved adaptation of John Martin’s watercolour The country of the Iguanodon appears as the frontispiece to Gideon Mantell’s The wonders of geology, published in 1838. Martin had an obvious interest in geology because he had visited Mantell’s house in Brighton in August 1834 to see the Iguanodon remains that Mantell had been collecting since 1819 from a quarry at Whitemans Green, near Cuckfield in Sussex. Mantell recorded in his journal: ‘Mr Martin was deeply interested in the remains of ...

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Date created

1837

Creator

John Martin

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/229590

Related subjects

Dinosaurs / Landscapes (Representations) / watercolour / paper / watercolours / works on paper / palaeontology / London / Walter Baldock Durant Mantell

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