Frontis for Gideon Mantell's popular book \Wonders of Geology\" (1838) which did much to popularise geology during victorian times. It ran to many edi

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Frontis for Gideon Mantell's popular book \Wonders of Geology\" (1838) which did much to popularise geology during victorian times. It ran to many editions - the third here came just one year after the first. The frontispiece shows a coral forming organisms drawn by his daughter Ellen Maria Mantell."

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Size: 5235px × 4116px
Photo credit: © PAUL D STEWART/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: artwork, coral, fossil, geology, gideon, illustration, mantell, palaeontology, paleontology, populariser, public, victorian