Quarries and quarrying - Great Britain

Date: 1822 - 1840

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Country of the iguanodon. Ca 1830 to ca 1850.

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-330-f-123-3

Description: View of an unidentified quarry, possibly Tilgate Forest. There are three men in the quarry. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 59 x 69 mm on sheet 177 x 111 mm

Date: 1830 - 1840

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Scrapbook. [ca 1810-1840]

By: Bensted, William Horatio, 1802-1873

Reference: E-295-q-099

Description: View into a working quarry, with a cart and men working below and higher and a flying fox rigged up. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash 122 x 165 mm, glued to sheet 174 x 216 mm

Date: 1915 - 1930

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-378-003

Description: Shows green rolling hills, with some smoke rising from various points, beyond the brow of the nearest hills. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 229 x 306 mm.

Date: 1820 - 1822

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Country of the iguanodon. Ca 1830 to ca 1850.

By: Pollard, F, active 1804-1830s; Day, William, 1797-1845

Reference: E-330-f-005-1

Description: A view of several palaeontologists extracting fossil remains from a large piece of rock in the quarry at Whiteman's Green in the Tilgate forest. Several layers of strata have been exposed and can be seen behind where the men are working, together with a shovel and long poles. In the middle distance two men are standing and talking to each other. In the top lefthand corner in the distance is a town and a church steeple. In the distance at surface level a man can be seen pushing a wheel barrow across a bridge formed from a wooden plank held in position by a trestle. Rocks, trees and other vegetation surround the area. From The Fossils of the South Downs, or illustrations of the geology of Sussex, by Gideon Mantell. (London, 1822). Opp p 37 Compare with E-295-q-107 Source of descriptive information - The Dinosaur hunters / Deborah Cadbury [London, 2000], Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 259 x 323 mm

Date: 1820 - 1822

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Country of the iguanodon. Ca 1830 to ca 1850.

By: Pollard, F, active 1804-1830s

Reference: E-330-f-005-2

Description: A view of three palaeontologists in the quarry at Whiteman's Green in the Tilgate forest. Two of the men are extracting fossil remains from a large piece of rock, while the third man (Gideon Mantell) is seated on a rock nearby. Several layers of strata have been exposed and can be seen behind where the men are working, together with a shovel and long poles. In the middle distance two men are standing and talking to each other. In the top lefthand corner in the distance is a town and a church steeple. In the distance at the surface level a man can be seen pushing a wheel barrow across a bridge formed from a wooden plank. Rocks, trees and other vegetation surround the area. Compare with E-295-q-107 Source of descriptive information - The Dinosaur hunters / Deborah Cadbury [London, 2000] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 153 x 213 mm

Date: 1876

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-008-007

Description: A stony brook crossed by a rough bridge, with stone walls on the far side. Smoke is rising from a stone building, presumably part of the quarry, in the background near the stream Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 254 x 357 mm