A Woodburytype portrait of Richard Owen, taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1878. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.

Richard Owen (1804-1892) was an anatomist, taxonomist and palaeontologist who played a key role in the founding of the Natural History Museum, London. A government advisor and royal family tutor, he increased public awareness of biology and created the word 'dinosaur'.

This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.