Re: Illustrating Bones

[Danvarner@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-09-04 10:49:41 EDT, Jerry Harris wrote:

<< I also truly adore the
 pictures in Ostrom & McIntosh's _Marsh's Dinosaurs_, but again, I am
 unaware of how those were done.
  >>

  A print was made from a drawing made with crayon on a slab of lithographic
limestone. Sometimes this limestone has imperfections like Archaeopteryx.
  An excellent book on this is available with eye-popping illustrations and
discussion of Cope and Marsh's illustrators, _Picturing Nature, American
Nineteeth-Century Zoological Illustration_ by Ann Shelby Blum, Princeton
University Press, 1993.
  This book is a must for anyone attempting serious scientific illustration.
It will blow your mind, as we used to say in my salad days. Comparing what I
see in today's journals with the work done in the 1800's makes wonder if it's
not a lost art (I'm sure it's not, don't get excited!)? Dan Varner.