Duria Antiquior
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Duria Antiquior, a more ancient Dorset is the first pictorial representation of a scene of prehistoric life based on evidence from fossil reconstructions, a genre now known as paleoart.
Duria Antiquior – A more Ancient Dorset is a watercolour painted in 1830 by the geologist Henry De la Beche based on fossils found by Mary Anning, and was the first pictorial representation of a scene from deep time based on fossil evidence.
The lithographic print made by Georg Scharf based on De la Beche's original watercolour.
The large oil on canvas painted by Robert Farren circa 1850 based on earlier versions by De la Beche and Scharf.
Henry De la Beche
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Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche KCB, FRS was an English geologist and palaeontologist, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, who helped pioneer early geological survey methods. He
Duria Antiquior
…on evidence from fossil reconstructions, a genre now known as paleoart. The first version was a watercolour painted in 1830 by the English geologist Henry De la Beche based on fossils found in Lyme Regis, Dorset, mostly by the professional fossil collector Mary Anning. This is now in the National Museum Cardiff. De…
Henry Thomas de la Beche
Idealised view of Slaves cutting sugar cane on a plantation in Jamaica, drawn by himself, 1825
An 1834 etching by De la Beche that appears in the beginning of his Researches in Theoretical Geology. A landmark scientific depiction of Earth as seen from space.