Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, "Iguanodon", 1854, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Benjamin waterhouse hawkins (1807-1894), painted plaster sculpture of an iguanodon as it was imagined at the time. 1854. Paris, national museum of natural history. Photographed in paris in 2021 at the musée d'orsay during the exhibition "the origins of the world. The invention of nature in the 19th century". Date: 1854.