A Sawrian:  cartoon on Gideon Mantell
Title

A Sawrian: cartoon on Gideon Mantell

Caption

A Sawrian: cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a suarian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex in 1820, and deduced from the teeth that it was a herbivore, not a carnivore like previously discovered dinosaurs. Cartoon by John Scott from Thomas Hood "Comic Annual", London, 1836. Woodcut.

Date

1836

Credit line

Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library

Reference

ARP07105_460001766

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Rights managed

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