\A Sawrian\" From \"The Anniversary of the Literary Fun 1836\" by Thomas Hood, published by Baily and Co, Cornhill. The cartoon uses a pun on the Saw

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\A Sawrian\" From \"The Anniversary of the Literary Fun 1836\" by Thomas Hood, published by Baily and Co, Cornhill. The cartoon uses a pun on the Saw and Sawrian to poke fun at Gideon Mantell's recently discovered giant saurian reptiles (named dinosaurs by Richard Owen in 1842). A second pun revolves around the fact that one of Mantell's most celebrated fossils, on display in his private home/museum in London, was that of an articulated iguanodon - found in a rock slab popularly called \"the Mantell piece\". The cartoon points out it is gideON MANTELL where the besieged gentleman has escaped to safety."

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Size: 3714px × 4706px
Photo credit: © PAUL D STEWART/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 19th, artwork, black, black--white, caricature, cartoon, century, collection, darwin, dinosaur, fossil, georgian, gideon, human, iguanodon, illustration, mantell, monochrome, people, person, piece, saurian, sawrian, victorian, white