Tom Sharpeさんのイラストまとめ

Often described as a sketch of #MaryAnning, this watercolour is in fact one of several by geologist and engineer Thomas Sopwith of William Buckland in Snowdonia on 14–16 October 1841, examining evidence for glaciation. #HistoryofGeology

#OTD in 1804 #janeausten wrote to her sister from #LymeRegis. #MaryAnning's father, a carpenter, was asked to repair some furniture in their rented house. The Austens thought his estimate of 5 shillings was excessive, 'beyond the value of all the furniture in the room together'.

Just arrived in time for #FossilFriday is this great new memoir on the history of #paleoart from @geosociety. A wonderfully wide-ranging set of 29 papers including, of course, one on Duria Antiquior, drawn for #MaryAnning who pops up in 4 papers in this volume. #historyofgeology

#OTD in 1829 after #MaryAnning had visited her in London, Charlotte Murchison wrote to a friend, 'Mary Anning has just been with me a week. Never had she been out of the smoke of Lyme before! & never saw you a happier person! We had such museum hunting every day.'

#OTD in 1824 geologist Charles Lyell wrote to Gideon Mantell about his recent visit to #MaryAnning in #LymeRegis where he saw 'the discovery of a superb skeleton of Ichthyosaurus by Miss Anning. It was perfect, save the tail which a cart-wheel had passed over. It was 2 feet long'

#OTD in 1835 #MaryAnning wrote to geologist John Phillips at King's College London to ask if he had received 'the Basket of Belemnites' she had sent him. it was many years before Phillips got round to publishing his research but he acknowledged her assistance.

#OTD in 1844, physician and naturalist Carl Gustav Carus, accompanying the King of Saxony on an informal tour, called at #LymeRegis en route from Weymouth to Exmouth. Visiting #MaryAnning's shop, Carus was impressed by the fossils for sale, and by her reasonable prices. 1/2

In these days of #PrehistoricPlanet and #JurassicWorldDominion, check out the latest issue of Earth Sciences History for the story of the first ever such reconstruction, Henry De la Beche's 1829–30 Duria antiquior, its various issues, and its links with #MaryAnning of #LymeRegis.

#OTD in 1819 William Bullock began the 26-day auction of the entire contents of his London Museum, the Egyptian Hall on Piccadilly. Amongst the specimens to be sold was the #ichthyosaur skull found in 1811 by #MaryAnning’s brother Joseph. #FossilFriday

#OTD in 1830, Charles Lyell wrote to Gideon Mantell about a visit by William Buckland to #LymeRegis: 'there is something in the wind...a paper on the new beast perhaps, that fish-like concern which #MaryAnning wants to make a grand wonder of, and the Dr a memoir, I suppose'. 1/2