MaryAnning - a detail
Detail of my Mary Anning linocut:
Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was the wrong class, the wrong sex and even the wrong religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work and communicate her results or to garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people in Britain and elsewhere thought the Earth was a mere few thousand years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible and found the idea of extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. Yet, her fossil discoveries, meticulous collection, documentation and independent work to fully understandand the anatomy of the amazing Jurassic creatures she encountered in famed Blue Lias cliffs of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, were so undeniable that she gained the recognition, admiration and respect of the paleontologists of the day. She has been called "the greatest fossil hunter of all time". I've illustrated her in front of the famous Blue Lias cliffs of her home in Lyme Regis, England, along with some of her finds the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be correctly identified, a plesiosaur skeletons and a couple of ammonites. She was a great, self-educated paleontologist who made vital contributions to the developping science.
MaryAnning - a detail
Detail of my Mary Anning linocut:
Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was the wrong class, the wrong sex and even the wrong religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work and communicate her results or to garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people in Britain and elsewhere thought the Earth was a mere few thousand years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible and found the idea of extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. Yet, her fossil discoveries, meticulous collection, documentation and independent work to fully understandand the anatomy of the amazing Jurassic creatures she encountered in famed Blue Lias cliffs of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, were so undeniable that she gained the recognition, admiration and respect of the paleontologists of the day. She has been called "the greatest fossil hunter of all time". I've illustrated her in front of the famous Blue Lias cliffs of her home in Lyme Regis, England, along with some of her finds the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be correctly identified, a plesiosaur skeletons and a couple of ammonites. She was a great, self-educated paleontologist who made vital contributions to the developping science.