16a. Vogt's Image of Archaeopteryx, 1880
After
viewing the illustration of the Berlin Archaeopteryx that appears
in Seeley's 1881 article, it is of interest to compare the illustration
reproduced here, which accompanied Carl Vogt's 1880 article. Vogt's piece
originally appeared in the Revue scientifique in 1879, and appears
here in translation. The illustration is a photograph of the actual slab.
Seeley's illustration, it will be recalled, was based on a photograph but
was actually drawn by an artist. There is much more detail visible in
Seeley's plate than in Vogt's, which shows the limitations in the printing
of photographs in the 1880s, and why for decades drawings of fossils were
prefered to photographs.
Source:Vogt, Carl. "Archaeopteryx macrura, an intermediate form between birds and reptiles,". in: Ibis, series 4, vol. 4 (1880), pp. 434-456. This work is in the Library Collections, but it is NOT on exhibit.
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