In the mid-nineteenth century an artist named Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins had one ambition: to show the world what dinosaurs looked like. His astonishing life-size models impressed the Queen and ...

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The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs were the work of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a natural history artist who, aided by some of the leading scientists of the day, had dreamt up a grand experiment in ...

The sculptures were commissioned in 1852 and unveiled in 1854 by artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. They were the first full-scale dinosaur reconstructions and were based on the scientific data ...