Awful Changes

Made:: 1833

maker:: Henry Thomas De la

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Lithograph, pen: 'Awful Changes'. H.T. de la Beche del. et lith. [c1833]. 25.5x31cm in frame 42x44.5cm. A scientific lecture is in progress, by Professor Ichthyosaurus, exampling a skull of man as a lower order of animals: a geologist's caricature of public scientific lecture on the fossil record and evolution of mankind. Years before Darwin's Origin of species 1859; used as frontispiece to the 1863 edition of Francis Buckland's book, Curiosities of natural history

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Category:: Art

Object Number:: 1981-1744

type:: print

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visual and verbal communication

credit:: Edmunds, A.

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