Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
1807–94
Natural history artist and sculptor. Assistant superintendent of the Great Exhibition, 1851. Commissioned by the Crystal Palace Company to construct life-size replicas of extinct animals for the park in 1852. Illustrated Fish (part 4) and Reptiles (part 5) for the Zoology of the voyage of HMS Beagle.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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