Skeleton of the Missouri Leviathan: the skeleton is shown standing in a pastoral setting, with a Native American shown seated on an elephant to indicate scale, while another Native American and a man in Western dress look on. Coloured lithograph by G. Tytler, ca. 1845.

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[1845?]
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581088i
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Skeleton of the Missouri Leviathan: the skeleton is shown standing in a pastoral setting, with a Native American shown seated on an elephant to indicate scale, while another Native American and a man in Western dress look on. Coloured lithograph by G. Tytler, ca. 1845. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London] : [publisher not identified], [1845?] ([London] (Newman St) : Lefevre)

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1 print : lithograph with watercolour and gum arabic ; image and lettering 31.6 x 39.3 cm

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Missouri Leviathan ; G. Tytler, fecit. ; Ther Reliquiâ of animal indigenous to North America: (exhibited in 1842 at the Aegyptian Hall, London.) Disinterred in the year 1840 ... In the province of 'Missouri' by Mr. Koch a native of Germany near Leipsig

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