Paintings, teeth of the iguanodon and hylaeosaurus by Lens Aldons

Description

Plate 6, figures 1-11 showing fossilised teeth of the iguanodon and teeth of an unknown reptile, possibly a hylaeosaurus. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Partially cut off signature bottom left reads '[...] Nature by Lens Aldons'. A graphite inscription bottom right reads 'J. [James] Basire sc.' Graphite inscription across the top reads 'This should be copper plate'. 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/75/1/5

Earliest possible date

1841

Physical description

Watercolour on paper

Page extent

1 page

Format

Painting