Paintings, 'Maxillary elements of the iguanodon and of the iguana' by G [George Johann?] Scharf
Reference number: PT/75/1/4
Date: 1841

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Plate 5, figures 1-9 showing portions of the fossilised jaw of the iguanodon and portions of the jaw of the Iguana tuberculata [Iguana iguana; green iguana]. Inscribed with publication and plate details. An ink inscription across the top reads 'A portion of the Lower Jaw of an Iguanodon'. Signed in ink bottom left 'Drawn by G. Scharf.' A graphite inscription bottom right reads 'J. [James] Basire sc.' Includes corrections of captions in graphite. Covered with a thin layer of tracing paper.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the iguanodon, and on the remains of the hylæosaurus and other saurians, discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell.
Received by the Royal Society on 8 February 1841. Read 18 February 1841.
- Reference number
- PT/75/1/4
- Earliest possible date
- 1841
- Physical description
- Watercolour on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Painting
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Gideon Algernon Mantell, Paintings, 'Maxillary elements of the iguanodon and of the iguana' by G [George Johann?] Scharf, 1841, PT/75/1/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_1_4/paintings-maxillary-elements-of-the-iguanodon-and-of-the-iguana-by-g-george-johann-scharf, accessed on 13 February 2025
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XI. Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the iguanodon, and on the remains of the hylæosaurus and other saurians, discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1841
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1841.0013
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Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of an Iguanodon, and other Saurian remains discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1843
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0148
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Paper, 'Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the iguanodon and other saurian remains discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell
Creator: Gideon Algernon Mantell Reference number: PT/25/4
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1840-1859
1840-1859 Reference number: PT/75 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 131
1840-1841 Reference number: PT/75/1
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