Home > Academy of Natural Sciences >   All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
	Our Price: $45.00 By Valerie Bramwell & Robert M. Peck Year: 2008 Pages: 128 Binding Paperback ISBN 0910006652 Product Code: 0910006652

Description   Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894) was a British artist and naturalist who significantly changed the way society thought about the world and its pre-human inhabitants. As one of the most versatile and prolific natural history artists of the Victorian age, Hawkins played a central role in the popularization of 19th century science. His knowledge of comparative anatomy and versatility at painting enabled him to create beautiful and scientifically accurate illustrations of fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and fossils for such important figures as Richard Owen, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Henry Huxley early in his career. Hawkins went on to make the first life-sized reconstructions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures anywhere in the world. Through a series of public displays in Great Britain and the U.S., Hawkins almost single-handedly ignited a popular interest in dinosaurs that continues to the present day. This is the first full-length biography of Waterhouse Hawkins. It is based on years of meticulous research in libraries, archives and museums in England and the U.S., including family papers, letters, sketch books and private records never available to scholars before. Includes a detailed time-line of Hawkins’ professional career. Illus.

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