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Why Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins created the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
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Joe Cain considers the making of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’s Crystal Palace dinosaurs and the public spectacle surrounding the 1853 dinner staged inside the Iguanodon model.
The lecture looks at what led Hawkins to create his Crystal Palace dinosaur works and recalls the publicity around the New Year’s Eve 1853 dinner staged inside the Iguanodon model.
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