This richly colored antique lithograph shows a Plesiosaurus and Ichthyosaurs in water with an erupting volcano in the background. Plesiosaurus was one of the first of the "antediluvian reptiles" to be discovered and excited great interest in Victorian England. It was so-named ("near lizard") by William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, to indicate that it was more like a normal reptile than Ichthyosaurus, which had been found in the same rock strata just a few years earlier.

This piece measures 7.5 inches by 10.5 inches.

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