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Dryptosaurus [art original] / Chas. R. Knight

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey no. 761

Scope and Contents

Originally entitled "Leaping Laelaps," this watercolor may be the earliest depiction of theropods, or actually any dinosaur, as highly active and dynamic, based on the opinions of E.D. Cope and Henry Fairfield Osborn, the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History at the time of the painting's commission.

Dates

  • 1897

Creator

Extent

1 Object : 1 painting : gouache on paper ; 40 x 58 cm., matted in frame 61 x 79 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transfer, Paleontology Department, 2014, March 14.

Related Materials

AMNH negative no. 335199; 4"x5" slide no. 1775; 35mm slide no. 1775.

General

Signed and dated '97 at lower right. On label mounted on verso of painting: K:AM 189701.

General

Exhibition note: "Dinosaurs: Past and Present," Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1987-1988.

General

Indexed in: Czerkas, S.M. and D.F. Glut. Dinosaurs, mammoths, and cavemen: the art of Charles R. Knight. New York: Dutton, 1982 (p. 49).

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

Contact:
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