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[Coryphodons] [art original] / Chas R. Knight

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey no. 789

Scope and Contents

Depicts two quadrupeds facing each other in front of a lake; one has its mouth wide open and the other is looking into it.

Dates

  • [1898]

Creator

Extent

1 Object : 1 painting : watercolor on paper ; 53 x 66 cm., in box, 64 x 99 x 10 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transfer, Paleontology Department, 2014, March 14.

Related Materials

AMNH negative no. 35796; 4"x5" slide no. 866; 35mm slide no. 666.

General

Signed and dated ("Sept. 98") at lower left.

General

Indexed in: (1) Czerkas, S.M. and D.F. Glut. Dinosaurs, mammoths, and cavemen: the art of Charles R. Knight. New York: Dutton, 1982, p. 53. (2) Osborn, H.F. The age of mammals. New York: MacMillan Co., 1921, p. 112.

Title
Coryphodons painting by Chas R. Knight
Author
Iris Lee
Date
2018
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library Repository

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