Portrait of Richard Owen with moa leg

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Title

Portrait of Richard Owen with moa leg

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Description

Portrait photo engraving of English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Richard Owen (1804-1892) taken from an 1846 daguerreotype. Owen stands holding the leg bone of a moa, an extinct bird once found in New Zealand. Owen published extensively on fossils and is famously known for coining the word Dinosauria. He also named the Din...

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Image

Date created

1894

Creator

Walker & Boutall

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PA Digital

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http://dp.la/item/d67a988f9a27b71df73da3e507def57e

Locations

England--London

Related subjects

Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 / Naturalists / Scientists--Biography / Portraits

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