Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs

Unknown artist

Wood engraving by the Dalziels

7½ x 4 inches

Pictorial title page for Elisha Noyce’s Outlines of Creation.

Another domestic version of the primeval past, with anthropomorphized dinosaurs grinning at the viewer; a brace of Plesiosaurs, billing like swans, can be seen in the background.

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  • Victorian Cryptozoology: The Great Sea-Serpent and its Cultural Representations
  • The Dinosaur Court at Crystal Palace

    • Scanned image and text by Simon Cooke.

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