Iguanodon Collection

1854 Crystal Palace Dinosaurs by Baxter 1
1854. Sydenham Crystal Palace with Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins dinosaur sculptures in the foreground. 11cm x 16.3 cm. Miniature colour print by the George Baxter patent process of mutiple ink blocks

Iguanodons were herbivorous dinosaurs from the mid-Jurassic to late Cretaceous.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1916, Hamburg

1855 Punch Dinosaurs Crystal Palace
1855 Cartoon from Punchs Almanac of that year, ascribed to John Leech. " A visit to the antediluvian reptiles at Sydenham - master Tom strongly objects to having his mind improved"

A rare British broadsheet illustration with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849

1866 Waterhouse Hawkins model dinosaurs
1866. Restorations of Fossil Reptiles, page 80 of Henry Wards Catalogue of Casts of Fossils. Henry Ward sold scale model copies in America of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins life sized sculptures of

1862 Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs
Lithograph with later hand colouring combining two of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins six wall posters " Waterhouse Hawkins Diagrams of the Extinct Animals" produced for the Department of

The Wealden, restorations, Crystal Palace Park
Original artwork by Walter Ray Woods for Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus
Sheet 3 of a series of posters by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862, showing Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus. Date: circa 1862

Iguanodon and Megalosaurus, artwork
Iguanodon fighting Megalosaurus, 19th century artwork. Artwork from the 1886 ninth edition of Moses and Geology (Samuel Kinns, London). This book was originally published in 1882

1836 Gideon Mantell Mantel Piece sawrian
" A Sawrian" From " The Anniversary of the Literary Fun 1836" by Thomas Hood, published by Baily and Co, Cornhill

Dinosaur / Iguanodon Dine
Hawkins invities scientists to dine inside his iguanodon model at the Crystal Palace exhibition at Sydenham

Gideon Mantell and iguanodon
Gideon Mantell (3 February 1790 - 10 November 1852). Gideon Mantell was a local doctor whose interest in fossils lead to his 1822 discovery near his home in Lewes of the first Iguanodon fossils

Iguanodon
This dinosaur was a large bipedal herbivore which stood 14 feet high and 30 feet long. It lived during the Lower Cretactous around 140 to 110 million years ago

1812 Hippopotamus skeleton by Cuvier
Skeleton of a hippopotamus, fine folio copperplate engraving from Cuviers " Ossamens Fossiles". Cuvier saw that the key to understanding fossils was to relate their bones to animals

1849 The antidiluvian world by reynolds
A rare British broadsheet with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849

Restorations of secondary period animals
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

1861 Punch Dinosaurs & Comet cartoon 1861 Punch Dinosaurs & Comet cartoon
From Punch 41 (1861) page 34, July. " The age of the comet ascertained to a nicety. The antediluvians recognise an old acquantance of A.M. 1372"

1857 Zimmermans The Primitive World 1857 Zimmermans The Primitive World
1857 Engraved chromo lithograph frontispiece by Pannemaker from the French translation Edition of Zimmermans " Le Monde avant la Creation de L" Homme"

Dinner in Iguanodon dinosaur
1854 Illustrated London News January 7th, page 22. Dinner in the iguanodon model, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. Hosted 31st December 1853 by the Crystal Palace model maker Benjamin Waterhouse

Fossilised dinosaur footprints at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, Colorado, USA. This region was home to the iguanodon, a massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail

A Sawrian: cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a suarian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex in 1820, and deduced from the teeth that it was a herbivore

1838 Maidstone Iguanodon Mantell piece a
The famous Mantell piece, a rock slab containing the most complete set of articulated dinosaur bones discovered up to that time - those of an iguanodon found in Maidstone, Kent

Fossil Iguanodons in the Bernissart Gallery of the Natural History Museum, Brussels, 1891. Creator: Hendrick Cassiers
'The Five Fossil Iguanodons in the Bernissart Gallery of the Natural History Museum at Brussels, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44

Lithograph with later hand colouring combining two of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins six wall posters Waterhouse Hawkins Diagrams of the Extinct Animals produced for the Department of Science

A Wonderful Bird-Like Reptile (b/w photo)
1628157 A Wonderful Bird-Like Reptile (b/w photo) by Woodward, Alice Bolingbroke (1862-1951) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Wonderful Bird-Like Reptile)

Restored Figure of the Iguanodon (engraving)
1628156 Restored Figure of the Iguanodon (engraving) by Woodward, Alice Bolingbroke (1862-1951) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Restored Figure of the Iguanodon)

Extinct Iguanodon bernissartensis
Reconstruction of an extinct Iguanodon bernissartensis, late Barremian to early Aptian, Early Cretaceous. Illustration from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt, Prehistoric Life, Georg Dollheimer

Fossil skeleton of an extinct Iguanodon bernissartensis, late Barremian to early Aptian, Early Cretaceous. Illustration from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt, Prehistoric Life, Georg Dollheimer

Fossil skeleton of an extinct Hesperornis regalis, penguin-like bird of the Campanian era, Late Cretaceous. Illustration from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt, Prehistoric Life

The Megalosaurus and Iguanodon (engraving)
2786763 The Megalosaurus and Iguanodon (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Megalosaurus and Iguanodon. Illustration for Chatterbox (1880)

The Iguanodon, restored (engraving)
3625562 The Iguanodon, restored (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Iguanodon, restored)

The Iguanodon (engraving)
670644 The Iguanodon (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Iguanodon. Illustration for Wonders of the World (D Omer Smith, c 1860)

Landscape depicting the Cretaceous period (146 to 65 million years ago
CHT184921 Landscape depicting the Cretaceous period (146 to 65 million years ago) illustration from Natural History of Mineralogy and Palaeontology by G.H

The Iguanodon of Bernissart (engraving)
1045565 The Iguanodon of Bernissart (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Iguanodon of Bernissart)

Iguanodon (colour litho)
2795546 Iguanodon (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Iguanodon.); © Look and Learn

Iguanodon and Megalosaurus, Cretaceous System (engraving)
672406 Iguanodon and Megalosaurus, Cretaceous System (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Iguanodon and Megalosaurus, Cretaceous System)

Dinner in the Iguanodon model, Crystal Palace, Sydenham
Diners seated in a model of an Iguanodon at Crystal Palace, London. The Iguanodon was a creation of Mr. B. Waterhouse Hawkins who was constructing models of various dinosaurs in his studio at Crystal

DINING INSIDE IGUANODON 1854
Hawkins invities scientists to dine inside his iguanodon model at the Crystal Palace exhibition at Sydenham. Date: 1854

Naturalists dining inside a model of a dinosaur, Crystal Palace, Sydenham, New Years Eve, 1853. Dinner given by sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889)

Comparison of the teeth of an iguanodon with those of a modern iguana, 1836
Comparison of fossil teeth and nasal horn of an iguanodon and the lower jaw and teeth of a modern iguana, 1836. From Geology and Mineralogy by William Buckland, one of the Bridgewater Treatises

Discovery of iguanodon fossils, Bernissart, Belgium, 1878 (c1880). 39 skeletons of the herbivorous dinosaur were discovered in a coal mine by Jules Creteur and his workmates

A Sawrian, 1836. Artist: John Scott
A Sawrian, 1836. Cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a saurian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex, in 1820

Gideon Algernon Mantell, English geologist, 1852. In 1820 Mantell (1790-1852) discovered fossil parts of the Iguanodon and deduced from its teeth that it was a herbivore

Iguanodon, 1895. Reconstruction of an Iguanodon, a large herbivorous dinosaur, sketched from a model on show at the Natural History Museum, London

DINOSAUR: IGUANODON. Drawing of the first reconstruction of the skeleton of Iguanodon by Gideon Mantell, c1825

Illustration of Iguanodon fighting
Palaeozoology - Cretaceous period - Dinosaurs - Iguanodon - Art work by Neil Lloyd

The comparative sizes of extinct animals
Printed poster, unknown author

Invitation to Dinner in Iguanodon 31 / 12 / 1853
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

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"Unveiling the Majestic Iguanodon: A Journey through Time and Art" Step into the world of dinosaurs with a visit to Crystal Palace Park in 1854, where Baxter's stunning rendition of the Iguanodon captivates all who behold it. This herbivorous giant, alongside its fellow dinosaur Hylaeosaurus, showcases the incredible diversity that once roamed our planet. In 1855, Punch Dinosaurs at Crystal Palace continued to amaze spectators as they marveled at Waterhouse Hawkins' lifelike models. The Wealden era comes alive through these restorations, transporting us back millions of years. The year 1862 witnessed an artistic masterpiece depicting Iguanodon and Megalosaurus in action. These awe-inspiring creatures were brought to life by skilled hands and vivid imagination, leaving viewers in awe of their sheer size and power. But let us not forget the man behind the discovery – Gideon Mantell. His tireless efforts led to groundbreaking findings about this magnificent creature. In 1836, he laid eyes on a fossilized jawbone fragment that would change paleontology forever – Mantell Piece sawrian. Mantell's dedication did not stop there; his fused spine discovery in 1852 shed further light on the anatomy of these prehistoric giants. His work paved the way for future research and understanding of dinosaurs like Iguanodon. Fast forward to present day - Dinosaur/Iguanodon Dine offers visitors a chance to immerse themselves in an interactive dining experience surrounded by life-sized replicas, and is here that we can truly appreciate how far our knowledge has come since those early discoveries at Crystal Palace Park over a century ago. So join us on this journey through time as we uncover the fascinating history surrounding one of Earth's most iconic inhabitants - the mighty Iguanodon.