Antique Paleontology Print of the Skull of a Tinoceras Ingens by Marsh

1886 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Paleontology Print of the Skull of a Tinoceras Ingens by Marsh

Name: Antique Paleontology Print of the Skull of a Tinoceras Ingens by Marsh
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12800-1-17
Price: 110 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1886
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 29 × 23 cm (11.4 × 9.1 in)
Condition: Fair. General age-related toning. Shows some creasing, mainly in upper right corner. Minor wear and foxing, please study images carefully.
Reference: BG-12800-1-17

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

A fossil brain cast drawn in three views, an original lithograph from Othniel Charles Marsh's monograph on the Dinocerata, volume 10 of the Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, published in 1886. The sheet is printed in gray-black on cream paper, with "Plate VI" at the upper right.

The lettering below the image reads "Dinoceras mirabile, Marsh" with a scale fraction, which does not match the title given for this piece. The plate shows a cast of the brain cavity of one of these giant horned mammals: a side view at the top, with the small, smooth cerebral hemispheres and the larger cerebellum behind, and two views from above and below at the bottom. Small letters and the cranial nerves, numbered with Roman numerals, mark the structures described in Marsh's text.

The artist's name appears at the lower left and the lithographer's, E. Crisand of New Haven, at the lower right. Marsh used such casts to argue that the Dinocerata had remarkably small brains for their size.

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