Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

John Scott

Subjects:

Palaeontology

    A terrified man sits on the mantelpiece in a room whose wallpaper depicts vertebrate fossils. He tugs at the bell-pull while a creature consisting of several saws threatens from below. A plinth on the floor evidently bears the name of Gideon Mantell, but is partly obscured by a fossil specimen so as to read 'on mantell'.