100205624

Dryptosaurus (Leaping Laelaps), painting by Charles Knight, 1897

1897

Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 (artist)

Paintings

40 x 58 cm.

1 painting : gouache on paper. Signed and dated '97 at lower right. Painting matted, in frame 61 x 79 cm. On label mounted on verso of painting: K:AM 189701. Originally entitled "Leaping Laelaps," this watercolor may be the earliest depiction of theropods, or actually any dinosaur, as highly active and dynamic, based on the opinions of E.D. Cope and Henry Fairfield Osborn, the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History at the time of the painting's commission. AMNH negative no. 335199; 4"x5" slide no. 1775; 35mm slide no. 1775.

Dinosaurs

AMNH Special Collections, [no call number]: Dryptosaurus, Charles R. Knight, 1897.

AMNH Library catalog record: Dryptosaurus [art original]

Czerkas, S.M. and D.F. Glut. Dinosaurs, mammoths, and cavemen: the art of Charles R. Knight. New York: Dutton, 1982 (p. 41).

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Photographic Transparency Number: 1775

Barcode Number: 100205624

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