Flammarion’s Archaeopteryx

Unknown artist, Archaeopteryx. The oldest fossil bird (‘De Archeopteryx. (de oudste fossiele vogel)’; metal engraving).

From the Dutch translation of Camille Flammarion’s La terre avant la création de l’homme (The Earth before Man’s Creation), 2nd Ed., 1880s (original 1886; exact age unknown), p. 429.

Like most of the illustrations in Flammarion’s books, this one is unsigned. And like most, it uses oodles of artistic license rather than attempting to bring a ‘serious’ reconstruction. I will post more from this remarkable work at a later date.