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Dec 8, 2016 · The sixth image, the caricature of Richard Owen, Riding His Hobby was first published in the periodical Once A Week (6 Jul 1872), New Series, 9, 13. Text from A.B. Griffiths, Biographies of Scientific Men (1912), 75-90.
Dec 27, 2010 · English: Richard Owen. Riding his hobby (Megatherium). from Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day
Oct 7, 2014 · OWEN, Sir Richard {1804-1892} Engraving: caricature of Sir R. Owen riding on skeleton of quadruped through a rocky landscape, 'Riding his hobby'; by 'F.W.', n.d. Iconographic Collections
- Biography
- Work on Invertebrates
- Fish, Reptiles, Birds, and Naming of Dinosaurs
- Work on Mammals
- Owen, Darwin, and The Theory of Evolution
- Legacy
- Conflicts with His Peers
Owen became a surgeon's apprentice in 1820 and was appointed to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1826. In 1836, Owen was appointed Hunterian professor at the Royal College, and in 1849, he succeeded William Clift as conservator of the Hunterian Museum. He held the latter office until 1856, when he became superintendent of the natural history depart...
While occupied with the cataloguing of the Hunterian collection, Owen did not confine his attention to the preparations before him but also seized every opportunity to dissect fresh subjects. He was allowed to examine all animals that died in London Zoo's gardens and, when the Zoo began to publish scientific proceedings, in 1831, he was the most pr...
Most of his work on reptiles related to the skeletons of extinct forms and his chief memoirs, on British specimens, were reprinted in a connected series in his History of British Fossil Reptiles (4 vols. London 1849–1884). He published the first important general account of the great group of Mesozoic land-reptiles, and he coined the name Dinosauri...
Owen was granted right of first refusal on any freshly dead animal at the London Zoo. His wife once arrived home to find the carcass of a newly deceased rhinoceros in her front hallway. At the same time, Sir Thomas Mitchell's discovery of fossil bones, in New South Wales, provided material for the first of Owen's long series of papers on the extinc...
Sometime during the 1840s Owen came to the conclusion that species arise as the result of some sort of evolutionary process. He believed that there was a total of six possible mechanisms: Parthenogenesis, prolonged development, premature birth, congenital malformations, Lamarckian atrophy, Lamarckian hypertrophy and transmutation, of which he thoug...
He was the first director in Natural History Museum in London and his statue was in the main hall there until 2009, when it was replaced with a statue of Darwin. A bust of Owen by Alfred Gilbert (1896) is held in the Hunterian Museum, London. A species of Central American lizard, Diploglossus owenii, was named in his honour by French herpetologists...
Owen has been described by some as a malicious, dishonest and hateful individual. Deborah Cadbury stated that Owen possessed an "almost fanatical egoism with a callous delight in savaging his critics." An Oxford University professor once described Owen as "a damned liar. He lied for God and for malice". Gideon Mantellclaimed it was "a pity a man so...
Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story (1911) (14782491752) ... Richard Owen, riding his hobby.jpg 739 × 1,135; 204 KB. Sir Richard Owen.
John Leech became a famous caricaturist for Punch, and his cartoon ‘Substance and Shadow’ created the word “cartoon”. Cartoons, of course, go back to Raphael. In the V&A today, there are Raphael’s cartoons and the exhibitions of the tapestries that have come from the Sistine Chapel.
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RICHARD OWEN (1804-1892). English comparative anatomist and zoologist. Caricature, 1872, by Frederick Waddy. Our beautiful Wall Art and Photo Gifts include Framed Prints, Photo Prints, Poster Prints, Canvas Prints, Jigsaw Puzzles, Metal Prints and so much more #MediaStorehouse
