Proteosaurus Collection

1814 Mary Anning first ichthyosaur skull
Temnodontosaurus platydon. First scientific illustration of Mary Annings (and the world s) first ichthyosaur skull (actually found by her brother Joseph in 1811)

1816 Bullocks Museum curios and fossils
1816 handcoloured copperplate engraving by R. Sands from a drawing by J.P. Neale, published by John Harris for " The Beauties of England and Wales"

1816 Bullocks Museum curios and fossil
1816 copperplate engraving by R. Sands from a drawing by J.P. Neale, published by John Harris for " The Beauties of England and Wales"

1819 Everard Home naming ichthyosaur
Sir Everard Home (1756-1832) 1819 letter to arctic explorer William Scoursby discussing his own forthcoming naming of Proteosaurus (ichthyosaur) on the basis of its cupped vertebrae

1819 Sir Everard Home icthyosaur letter
Sir Everard Home (1756-1832) contemporary portrait engraving and letter to arctic explorer William Scoursby discussing his naming of Proteosaurus (ichthyosaur)

Sir Everard Home Portrait Natural Science
Sir Everard Home (1756-1832) contemporary engraving with later hand colouring. Home was the first president of the Royal College of Surgeons and studied under John Hunter (who married Homes sister)

Cupped ichthyosaur vertebrae Everard Home
Ichthyosaur Vertebrae in cross section, copper plate illustration from a paper by Sir Everard Home in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical Society

Ichthyosaur skull and paddle Everard Home
Copperplate engraving from a paper in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical society by Sir Everard Home describing the first ichthyosaur discoveries. See other photos in this collection

Cupped Ichthyosaur vertebra Everard Home
Ichthyosaur Verterbra copper plate illustration from a paper by Sir Everard Home in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical Society

Ichthyosaur skeleton engraving 1819 Home
First scientific illustration of a complete ichthyosaur skeleton. Copper fold-out engraving at life size, (2.5cm ammonite top right for scale). It comes from a paper by Sir Everard Home in 1819

Ichthyosaur paddle Everard Home 1819
Ichthyosaur paddle copper plate illustration from a paper by Sir Everard Home in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical Society 1819

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