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Portrait of Richard Owen

  • 1894

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Half-length frontispiece portrait print of English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Richard Owen (1804-1892) from an oil painting by Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875). Owen published extensively on fossils and is famously known for coining the word Dinosauria.

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Owen, Richard. “Portrait of Richard Owen.” The Life of Richard Owen, Volume 1. London, England: John Murray (Firm), 1894. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/tmeiavf.

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