Title

Discovery of a woolly mammoth, 1779 (c1870). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Discovery of a woolly mammoth, 1779 (c1870). The discovery of a specimen of the prehistoric elephant, approximately 9ft high and 16ft long, preserved frozen in a block of ice in Siberia.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1870

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_191

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,0Mb (3,1Mb) / 11,2in x 10,4in / 3373 x 3105 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal people frozen discovery prehistoric ice tusks tusk dead siberian big death century Russia preserved concept B&W huge Mammoth Siberia MONOCHROME enormous 19th century black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive TGN engraving Unknown engraving