Great Sea Dragons

Great Sea Dragons.. by John Martin. This image by John Martin (1789-1854) depicts Jurassic life in the artist's typical nightmarish and gothic style. On the left, two plesiosaurs are attacking an ichthyosaur, whilst on the right pterosaurs are scavenging the corpse of another. Engraving

Picture No

14154223

Media ID

45859830

Size

4730px x 3216px (3.0MB)

Credit

Source

Geological Society of London. Frontispiece to Thomas Hawkins', The book of the great seadragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri ... gedolim taninim, of Moses. Extinct monsters of the ancient earth. With thirty plates, copied from skeletons in the author's collection of fossil organic remains, (deposited in the British Museum).' London: William Pickering (1840). - Image reference: 03-25

Date

1840