Mary Anning
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Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist. She became known internationally for her discoveries in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at
Anning with her dog, Tray, painted before 1842; the hill Golden Cap can be seen in the background.
Blue plaque where Mary Anning was born and had her first fossil shop, now the Lyme Regis Museum
1842 sketch of Anning's house
Blue Lias cliffs, Lyme Regis
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.
Mary Anning
…of London, and she did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions. However, her friend, geologist Henry De la Beche, who painted Duria Antiquior, the first widely circulated pictorial representation of a scene from prehistoric life derived from fossil reconstructions, based it largely on fossils…
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.